I meant creativity in a broader sense. Like "using stone tools", not "painting and dancing" (but not excluding it!). Kind empathy has been demonstrated in some

I meant creativity in a broader sense. Like "using stone tools", not "painting and dancing" (but not excluding it!). Kind empathy has been demonstrated in some rats (a highly intelligent animal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyolz2Qf1ms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyolz2Qf1ms Note the researchers mentioning a "social contagion" that encourages empathy (another one of your kind crying, you cry). The goal of the experiment is to detect an even deeper kind of empathy (the savior rat is also in high stress and must overcome its instincts to save his fellow rat). The thing you did for the kid required much more sophistication than that. Some of that sophistication comes from or manifests as empathy, in the sense that they're correlated. I'm also saying it in a broader sense than only biological in rats. But that's the part that science has no data yet, so that's why I say it comes from my conjecturing ass.