John B. Calhoun was a ethologist (John B. Calhoun, Wikipedia) and a behavioral researcher. “He claimed that the bleak effects of overpopulation on rodents were a grim model for the future of the human race.” Calhoun is also the creator of the term, “behavioral sink”, which in other words, could be seen as a point of irreversible damage to individuals in a society that have had problems. Calhoun was born in Elkton Tennessee (John B. Calhoun, Wikipedia). In high school, Calhoun joined a club that was centered around ornithology, where he developed an “interest in birds and bird habits.” “His first published article was in The Migrant, the journal of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, when he was 15 years old.” Calhoun met his wife in college
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Mice started to not like to eat unless they were around other mice, and because of this, mice would crowd and overpopulate the feeding area. Since the mice grew to only like to eat around each other, other areas in the mice’s pen were lower in density/population and the pen became uneven in terms of where the mice were. Male mice had become violent, overly sexual cannibals in a lot of instances. Some mice though, mostly female, were referred to as the “Beautiful Ones” because of their ideal way of being. These mice mostly stayed to themselves and didn’t partake in the unnecessary activities as the others did, such as fighting. They slept, ate and groomed themselves. These mice stayed to themselves and did not include themselves with others even to reproduce. His work was a direct result of his interest in overpopulation and the possibility of it leading to the species dying out. Calhoun compares the effects of overpopulation with mice to people, but many have argued that this comparison is not exactly 100% valid because people have “agency” (HowStuffWorks,
Mice started to not like to eat unless they were around other mice, and because of this, mice would crowd and overpopulate the feeding area. Since the mice grew to only like to eat around each other, other areas in the mice’s pen were lower in density/population and the pen became uneven in terms of where the mice were. Male mice had become violent, overly sexual cannibals in a lot of instances. Some mice though, mostly female, were referred to as the “Beautiful Ones” because of their ideal way of being. These mice mostly stayed to themselves and didn’t partake in the unnecessary activities as the others did, such as fighting. They slept, ate and groomed themselves. These mice stayed to themselves and did not include themselves with others even to reproduce. His work was a direct result of his interest in overpopulation and the possibility of it leading to the species dying out. Calhoun compares the effects of overpopulation with mice to people, but many have argued that this comparison is not exactly 100% valid because people have “agency” (HowStuffWorks,