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The University of Chicago study 'Pro-social behavior in rats is modulated by social experience' experiments on how rats of different stains would behave when a rat was trapped with another rat having the ability to free the enclosed rat. The study found that how familiar the rats were with the strain was a greater factor in whether or not they would open the cage then self identity. In one experiment a rat was placed in foster with almost entirely rats of another strain. The rats were far more likely to help the strain of rats they were familiar with rather than rats of their own strain concluding self identity was not an important factor in the decisions of the rats.
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