![]() ![]() The reason for this phenomenon was found to derived from social decay which worsened with each generation. This test was replicated several times and it was found that these led to the same outcome each time. He chose rodents as these reproduce rapidly thus allowing him to observe the development of several generations of mice in a relatively short space of time.Ĭalhoun and his researchers found that in a space-limited/resource unlimited environment, the population of mice would explode peak-out and then collapse to extinction. ![]() The animals which Calhoun chose for his experiments were mice (and later on rats). In 1950, an American ethologist named John Calhoun created a series of experiments to test the effects of overpopulation on the behaviour of social animals. Here I quoted "must-read" sentences before you come to the meeting. What Humans Can Learn From The Mice Utopia Experiment For those who are willing to learn more, the link for full article is as follows, and you will definitely acquire more knowledge about the author's comparison between mouse utopia and human world with a lot of modern cases of Behavioural Sinks In Humans. When I first read about this topic, I thought this deserved to be discussed in YOYO while the article is quite lengthy too. It's clear to see that many of the social issues that humans faced from the early 19th century to today are similar to those faced by the mice in the Mouse Utopia.3/11(Sat) Mice Utopia Experiment (Host: David Jr.) Some of them, called the beautiful ones would groom themselves quietly from the corners of the habitat and observe the collapse of their society. Mice had issues with sexuality as many mice started trying to mate with both males and females. Some mice roamed around the environment in gangs biting the tales of other mice, while female mice started becoming hostile towards their own offspring. Calhoun created many other mouse and rat utopias but no matter what he did and no matter how he set the parameters for his experiments the populations of mice became hostile towards each other as soon as their populations reached a high point. Food is cheaper and more plentiful then ever, oil is still relatively cheap when compared to historical standards before the 1920s and 1930s. We assume that people are having less children on a conscious level, but I don't believe that's the case. It worked for a while but now the populations that have living in such types of housing for multiple generations are now starting to have less children. Looking at these experiments in a new way I see Suburbia as an attempt to keep economic growth going by reducing the density of housing in the twentieth century. ![]() Calhoun created the first mouse universe experiment in 1963 with four breeding pairs and the population expanded into multiple hundreds of mice. The idea behind the experiments was to see if the data could be translated over to major cities that were rapidly growing in population in the 1950s and 1960s as the baby boomer generation was born in overcrowded cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angles. The only limiting factor to the expansion of the mouse population was space and overcrowded conditions. The idea was to see how rodent populations expanded in an environment without natural predators and plenty of food available to them. These particular experiments were done with mice and rats. As promised here is my video on the Mouse Utopia Experiments by John B. ![]()
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