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Rats To The Rescue Annotated Summary

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I chose to read the annotated article titled Rats To The Rescue annotated by Chantal Bodkin-Clarke. Generally speaking the article discussed and reflected upon the idea that non-mammal primates help another in distress. Non-mammal primates being mammals that are not a member of a collection of animals that don 't contain humans. For example apes and monkeys. However attempts to discover why these actions occurred remained unknown. The study conducted was rats attempting to learn how to open cages that they “knew” contained a trapped rat. After the study was conducted they found that rats “helping behavior” occurred after freeing with no social interaction. With this information they needed to figure out whether non-primate animals are capable

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