Something We Never Share with the Mice
January 7, 2009
When I was younger, I once saw an experiment about mice in an Educational TV. The test was about the effect of drastic increase in population and the sudden scarcity of rations in food in the social behavior of rats. The little documentary first showed a very small group of mice happily living together in a frolicsome environment where overcrowding and food crisis is totally unheard of; then the camera focused on an overcrowded cage of mice given only with limited supply of grains. Soon, the competition for space and food in the latter set up became fierce. The mice in the second group became more aggressive and irritable until such time that they resorted to infanticides and cannibalism. [READ MORE]
