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  1. Behavioral sink

    "Behavioral sink" is a term invented by ethologist John B. Calhoun to describe a collapse in behavior that can result from overpopulation.The term and concept derive from a series of over-population experiments Calhoun conducted on Norway rats between 1958 and 1962. [1] In the experiments, Calhoun and his researchers created a series of "rat utopias" [2] - enclosed spaces where rats were ...

  2. This Old Experiment With Mice Led to Bleak ...

    Working with rats between 1958 and 1962, and with mice from 1968 to 1972, Calhoun set up experimental rodent enclosures at the National Institute of Mental Health's Laboratory of Psychology.

  3. Universe 25: The Mouse "Utopia" Experiment That Turned Into An

    John B Calhoun set about creating a series of experiments that would essentially cater to every need of rodents, and then track the effect on the population over time. The most infamous of the ...

  4. The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'

    Even Universe 25—the biggest, best mousetopia of all, built after a quarter century of research—failed to break this pattern. In late October, the first litter of mouse pups was born. After ...

  5. John B. Calhoun

    John Bumpass Calhoun (May 11, 1917 - September 7, 1995) was an American ethologist and behavioral researcher noted for his studies of population density and its effects on behavior.He claimed that the bleak effects of overpopulation on rodents were a grim model for the future of the human race. During his studies, Calhoun coined the term "behavioral sink" to describe aberrant behaviors in ...

  6. John B. Calhoun's Mouse Utopia Experiment and Reflections on the

    Calhoun's intent was to observe the effects on the mice of population density, but the experiment produced results that went beyond that. "I shall largely speak of mice, but my thoughts are on man," he would later write in a comprehensive report. At first, the mice did well. Their numbers doubled every 55 days.

  7. Infamous Universe 25 'Rodent Utopia' Experiment Is Not a Sign of the

    It was the only one of Calhoun's habitats fully studied from beginning to end. Universe 25 was populated with mice instead of rats, but most everything else remained the same. Mice had everything ...

  8. John B. Calhoun and his Rat Utopia

    It seems like Calhoun may have been the only person who was capable of carrying out the experiments - and the lack of reproducibility comes down to the fact that no one except for him was interested in babysitting a quarter acre of rats for nearly a year and a half. Whatever the case, Calhoun did something extraordinary.

  9. The Calhoun rodent experiments: the real-life rats of NIMH

    Calhoun's new rat palace consisted of a 3m x 4.3m room, divided into four pens by an electrified fence. These pens contained everything a rat could possibly need: food, water, elevated burrows ...

  10. The Rat Utopia Experiments That Predicted Humanity's Dark Future

    Calhoun's early experiments involved a 28-month study of a colony of Norway rats in a 10,000-square-foot outdoor pen. Beginning with five females, he predicted an exponential population rise leading to a theoretical 5,000 healthy progeny by the experiment's end. In fact, the population never exceeded 200 individuals, stabilizing at 150.

  11. Book Review: How One Weird Rodent Ecologist Tried to Change the Fate of

    Calhoun, an endlessly inventive designer of experiments, built an enclosure outfitted with rat apartments and partitioned the pen into connected "neighborhoods," creating a murid arcadia that ...

  12. PDF Escaping the Laboratory: The Rodent Experiments of John B. Calhoun

    The content graphically documents excesses of lust, aggression, and self-abandon in an urban setting. The subtitle is: "Tales from the Behavioral Sink.". Fig 4. Cover art for "Tales from the Behavioral Sink". 15 Crumb had even contributed a story to issue #1 of Insect Fear.

  13. The researcher who loved rats and fueled our doomsday fears

    June 19, 2017 at 6:00 a.m. EDT. John B. Calhoun loved rats. He designed elaborate colonies for the creatures that became a kind of paradise, free of predators and disease, with an unlimited supply ...

  14. From rodent utopia to urban hell: population, pathology, and the

    In a series of experiments at the National Institute of Mental Health, the animal ecologist John B. Calhoun offered rats everything they needed, except space. The resulting population explosion was followed by a series of "social pathologies"--violence, sexual deviance, and withdrawal. This essay examines the influence of Calhoun's experiments ...

  15. What Humans Can Learn from Calhoun's Rodent Utopia

    Universe 25: Calhoun's Experiment with a Rodent Utopia. Expanding on his earlier studies, Calhoun devised his ultimate research experiment. In Universe 25, a population of mice would grow within a 2.7-square-meter enclosure consisting of four pens, 256 living compartments, and 16 burrows that led to food and water supplies.

  16. How Mice Turned Their Private Paradise Into A Terrifying Dystopia

    In 1972, animal behaviorist John Calhoun built a mouse paradise with beautiful buildings and limitless food. He introduced eight mice to the population. Two years later, the mice had created their ...

  17. What the Rat City Experiments Mean for Society

    May 16, 2023. 4. Share. Introduction. From the 1940s, John Calhoun conducted a series of experiments on rodents to study behaviour during overcrowding. He created enclosed spaces called "rat utopias" for rats to live in with no predators and minimal exposure to disease. These spaces were designed to cater to every need of the rodents.

  18. Behavioral Sink: The Overpopulation Experiments Of John B. Calhoun

    Calhoun began his experimental research on rodents in 1947, when he studied an enclosed group of Norway rats at a barn in Rockville, Maryland. Supplying the critters with unlimited food and water, he expected to see their population swell to 5,000 over the course of the 28-month experiment. However, the population capped out at 200 after ...

  19. What Does "Rat Park" Teach Us About Addiction?

    Alexander's experiments, in the 1970s, have come to be called the "Rat Park. 1 Researchers had already proved that when rats were placed in a cage, all alone, with no other community of rats, and offered two water bottles-one filled with water and the other with heroin or cocaine-the rats would repetitively drink from the drug-laced bottles ...

  20. Curt Richter's rat hope experiment: Why did the first nine rats survive

    The numbers you cite regarding the 3 versus 9 rats comes from his second run of the experiment where he tests whether trimming the whiskers in the rats would result in different times. The first rat swam around excitedly on the surface for a very short time, then dove to the bottom, where it began to swim around nosing its way along the glass wall.

  21. Drowning Rats Psychology Experiment: Resilience and the Power of Hope

    In the 1950s, Curt Richter, a professor at Johns Hopkins, did a famous drowning rats psychology experiment. This experiment, though cruel, demonstrated the power of hope and resilience in overcoming difficult situations. Summary by The World of Work Project.

  22. The urban animal: population density and social pathology in rodents

    In a 1962 edition of Scientific American, the ecologist John B Calhoun presented the results of a macabre series of experiments conducted at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). 1 He had placed several rats in a laboratory in a converted barn where - protected from disease and predation and supplied with food, water and bedding - they bred rapidly.

  23. Tryon's Rat Experiment · Gwern.net

    Tryon's Rat Experiment. Tryon's Rat Ex­per­i­ment is a multi- decade se­lec­tive breed­ing an­i­mal ex­per­i­ment begin in the 1930s which rapidly bred enor­mous dif­fer­ences in a com­plex psy­cho­log­i­cal trait, maze- running, demon­strat­ing core prin­ci­ples of be­hav­ior ge­net­ics. Tryon's Rat Ex­per­i ...

  24. Investigating the modulatory effects of lactoferrin on depressed rats

    Experimental design. Based on the findings of our group's pre-experiment and relevant literature 26,27, we utilized 2% LF (2 g/100 ml) as an intervention for a duration of 44 days in this study ...

  25. The Wound-Healing Effect of a Novel Fibroblasts-Impregnated

    Background/Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of a cell-containing wound dressing based on fibroblasts in hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) gel for the local treatment of deep partial-thickness and/or full-thickness skin burns in an animal model. Methods: The rats (male Wistar, n = 100) were subjected to a full-thickness thermal burn (16 cm2). Radical necrectomy was ...