PREMIUM: Contemplations #122 | The Mouse Utopia Experiment

Josh Ferme , Connor Tomlinson and Jack Furness

Published 29th Apr, 2023 at 01:00 pm

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Josh and Connor discuss ethologist John B. Calhoun’s famous “Behavioural Sink” experiment where he found that rats and mice, in an overcrowded environment with abundant resources, behaved in many alarming ways. The study has worrying implications when applied to human civilisation.

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The Mouse Utopia Experiment

The Problem with America’s Lab Mice and Why it Should Matter to You - The Joe Rogan Experience Clips Channel - YouTube
Does a Rat Free a Trapped Rat Due to Empathy or for Sociality? - National Library of Medicine
Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell? - Sam Kean - Science History Institute
How 1960s Mouse Utopias Led to Grim Predictions for Future of Humanity - Maris Fessenden - Smithsonian Magazine
Death Squared - John B Calhoun, 1973 - National Library of Medicine
The urban animal: population density and social pathology in rodents and humans - Edmund Ramsden - National Library of Medicine
Escaping the Laboratory: The Rodent Experiments of John B. Calhoun & Their Cultural Influence - Edmund Ramsden and Jon Adams - The Journal of Social History
Death Squared: The Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population - John B Calhoun - National Library of Medicine
Behavioral sink - Wikipedia

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