What is universe 25?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
It was an experiment with too many mice, too well cared for. The mice became withdrawn and… “Though physically able to reproduce, the mice had lost the social skills required to mate.”
That guy’s experiments were the inspiration for the Rats of NIMH books, which led to The Secret of NIMH movie!
Now I want to see human population density compared to birthrate 25 years later for regions with a current sub-replacement birthrate.
“Losing the social skills required to mate” sounds like many people I know.
If you had to guess, what form would this “loss of social skills and non-mating” take in a human population?
It’s an experiment that was conducted to see what would happen when mice were given what people supposed would be a mice utopia. Things did not go well.
Here’s some videos, pick your poison lol
My brain really wants to see loss in this…
Just remember the trauma doesn’t own you, and one day, you won’t see loss in everything again.
Universe 25?
I’m just gonna paste from a different comment:
It’s an experiment that was conducted to see what would happen when mice were given what people supposed would be a mice utopia. Things did not go well.
Here’s some videos, pick your poison lol
Ohh I see, I heard of these before. I didn’t know they were called universe 25
edit: see response to OP, below
FYI, it’s very important to note that these are mice, not rats, which have drastically different social dynamics. I don’t know if this experiment has been repeated with rats, (and I rather hope not) but I wouldn’t be surprised to see a very different outcome.Humans are very different animals, though, and we should probably be cautious about projecting these results onto society.
Oh my bad I totally thought it was rats, I’ll edit my comments accordingly
Turns out you’re actually right, as there were similar experiments performed on rats, with similar results, so I redacted my comment.
Still feel like it’s not necessarily a good idea to apply the lessons to human society, but… yeah, depressing outcomes.
Being social is being social. While I do think we’re not rats, lol, I do think we are both bound by the same laws of social dynamics. That’s why I’m seeing the similarities.
Despite all my rage, I’m still just a rat in a cage
