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The study's findings suggest that feelings similar to regret can influence the behavior and decisions made by rodents, and challenge the assumption that regret is a feeling unique to humans.
When we talk to you about the emotions of animals, we are talking mainly about higher vertebrates: birds and mammals.
Animals, of course, experience basic emotions.
Moreover, not only highly developed mammals such as apes, elephants and dolphins, but also, for example, rats, are capable of empathy (that is, sympathy for their own kind).
“World science either answers positively to the question of the presence of empathy in animals, or simply does not address this issue.
The animal looks away, blinks frequently, looks with sad, pitiful eyes, lowers its head, presses its ears closer to its head, licks or yawns, lowers its tail or lies down cowering, some pets even hide.
The pet may turn away from the scene of the “crime”, as if he were ashamed of what he had done.