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When mice are put into enclosures with limitless resources, their social behaviour degenerates dramatically.

When mice are put into enclosures with limitless resources, their social behaviour degenerates dramatically. You always hear about scientists getting mice to run around in some complicated maze in search of a single cube of cheese or pouring burning hot liquids into their eyes. But in 1972 John B Calhoun deployed a seemingly more mouse-friendly experiment called Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice. He built a mouse’s utopia (a pa-rat-ice ;] ) called Universe 25. It was a 101 square inch tank equipped with 37 inch climbing walls and an abundance of...

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Published By: OMGFacts - Saturday, 11 August, 2012