Empathy is the capacity to recognize full range of emotions such as fear, pain, love, anger, etc that are being experienced by another sentient or fictional being. The rang
…e of empathy in a sentient creature is directly proportional to the intelligence of that creature. There have been numerous peer reviewed studies that conclusively prove the existence of empathy in humans and other animals, such as monkeys, dolphins, cows, rats and other. Of all animals, humans exhibit the widest range of empathetic reactions. Recent studies have also demonstrated that while the degree, or lack of empathy, in humans is directly proportional to nurturing or lack thereof during early and mid childhood, humans, as well as other social animals are in fact born with a natural propensity for empathy. Several such laboratory studies, concluded and ongoing, confirm that humans, as being a social and a highly intelligent animal, are soft wired for empathy. (MORE) 
