Empathy, intuitive understanding of another’s feelings, is not an ability unique to humans.

Empathy

Experiencing empathy, knowing how someone else feels, is the basis for all moral acts.

I have watched in amazement as our dog empathised with his friend, our daughter's dog, after it had undergone an operation on his paw.
Normally, they rushed around, provoking each other to wild games without end. But after the operation, our dog sniffed the other dog and remained quietly standing, staring with a concentrated look, while making peeping sounds now and again to show that he was empathising with the other's fate. Then he very carefully began to lick the other dog’s operated paw.

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