Behavioral sink - 'rat utopia' experiments that collapsed under overcrowding and social stress. - eviltoast
  • Plum@lemmy.worldOP
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    In his most famous experiment in the series, “Universe 25”, population peaked at 2,200 mice even though the habitat was built to tolerate a total population of 4000. Having reached a level of high population density, the mice began exhibiting a variety of abnormal, often destructive, behaviors including refusal to engage in courtship, and females abandoning their young. By the 600th day, the population was on its way to extinction.

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      Yeah it turns out free effective birth control is actually a pretty big part of whatever’s the closest possible thing to a utopia.