It’s extremely interesting to me that cats, despite having no way of knowing sadness in another being (they anatomically can not have empathy), they know that this isn’t how it’s supposed to be. They do know happiness in others, so in order to make the “not good thing” go away, they do things you usually like (cuddles) and things that they like (bottle caps). They show empathy through intelligence.
It’s extremely interesting to me that cats, despite having no way of knowing sadness in another being (they anatomically can not have empathy), they know that this isn’t how it’s supposed to be. They do know happiness in others, so in order to make the “not good thing” go away, they do things you usually like (cuddles) and things that they like (bottle caps). They show empathy through intelligence.
Edit: source
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7401521/