![]() Surprise surprise, prisons make animals (including humans) go crazy. These experiments show what happens what you put a species in a mind-numbing PRISON, no matter how comfortable. These experiments don’t show what happens when you put a species in utopia, because this was not a utopia in the slightest. There is no indication that there were any interesting structures for them to climb on, or any new things for them to chew on–I doubt there was even any food ever offered to them besides the same lab block day after day, which is not a “perfect” life for such an omnivorous and opportunistic eater like our own species! They did nothing but eat, groom and sleep or turned to fighting because there was literally nothing else to do! Carbonell Phenomena No Comments In the movie The Matrix, Agent Smith tells Morpheus that the first Matrix was a world where everyone would be happy and said Matrix was a complete disaster. Keeping them in an enclosed space means they can’t travel so there was no novelty in their lives–no new experiences no curiosities to examine, nothing to try out. Universe 25: The Mouse Utopia Experiment Roddy P. NOTHING I’ve ever read about these so-called “mouse utopias” indicates that there was ever anything resembling any form of ENRICHMENT for the (very intelligent!) rats (and later mice). What about the inbreeding? Maybe should of started with 100 couples, and also “things to do” like wheels, games, etc. I followed the link to the transcript, and read the comments there a couple were, I think, particularly insightful: However, as a result, the entire colony of mice became extinct. As part of a social experiment, paradisiacal conditions were created for the mouse population: unlimited supplies of food and drink, the absence of predators and diseases, sufficient space for reproduction. As I have no idea why it does that, I thought I’d revisit it to try to figure out a reason for it. The Universe-25 experiment: How Heaven became Hell. It was not the first time the ethologist had built a world for rodents. This post is one of the wibblettes here that appears to have lasting appeal it keeps popping up in the ‘popular posts’ widget. Every aspect of Universe 25, as this particular model was called, was designed to cater for the well-being of its rodent residents, increase their lifespan, and allow them to mate. Despite going out of his way to ensure the inhabitants of his perfect mouse society never wanted for anything, within 2 years virtually the entire population was dead. ![]() Calhoun built what was essentially a utopia for mice that was purpose built to satisfy their every need. In 1968, an expert on animal behaviour and population control called John B. Containing plentiful food, water, bedding and, at least initially, space, the enclosure was described as follows: A tank, 101 inches square, enclosed by walls 54 inches high. Courtesy of a comment on …and Then There’s Physics I present a fascinating video that reveals what happens when a society has no barriers to growth: Dubbed Universe 25, Calhoun’s mouse utopia was built with the needs of its mouse inhabitants firmly in mind and was designed specifically to cater to their every whim. ![]()
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