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It's a fair characterization of the mouse utopia experiments of John B. Calhoun, modulo some anthropomorphism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28555652 h
by meetups323 5y ago
It's a fair characterization of the mouse utopia experiments of John B. Calhoun, modulo some anthropomorphism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28555652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28555652
- moussrr1 5y agoThose "experiments" have long since been recognized as broken and invalid. The mice were severely overcrowded, because Calhoun didn't actually understand the animals' need for spread out, large territories, and was more concerned with churning out dozens of ridiculous mouse-panopticons. Mice have biological processes that are sometimes analogous to humans, making them useful for some forms of experimentation. Their social behavior is anything but human-like.