Chapter 117 The Rat Utopia

Utopia, originally means "a place without" or "a good place", extends to "an idiomatic country".

The founder of Utopia Socialism was the British Thomas More. In his book "Utopia", he fictionalized an exotic country called Utopia.

In Utopia, everyone is equal and property is owned by public. Everyone wears uniforms and eats in a unified restaurant, and everything is distributed on demand. If one day, utopia becomes a reality, will it really be so beautiful?

Then let the teenage mouse experience it first.

The person who designed and carried out the "Rat Utopia" was an expert in animal behavior and population control named John Calhoun. The reason he chose to use rats for experiments is because rats are "social" animals, like humans.

In addition, the IQ of a mouse is very high. It is said that the IQ of an adult mouse is equivalent to an 8-year-old child.

In July 1968, Calhoun built a pocket luxury estate for the mouse, with a sci-fi and romantic name:

"Universe     25". This "manor" is a square groove with a side length of about 2.6 meters, and the surrounding walls are about 1.4 meters high.

There is a 1-meter-high wall built at the bottom for mice to climb and enjoy themselves; but the wall above is very smooth to prevent mice from escaping from jail.

On each wall, 16 vertical mesh tunnels are welded, connecting 4 corridors horizontally, leading to 4 nesting boxes.

There are 256 boxes in the entire utopia. Each box can hold 15 mice.

During this period, there are plenty of food, water and spacious accommodation. In order to satisfy their desire for sex, a very "rat-sex" "hourly private room" was specially designed.

Next, four male, four female, eight healthy mice were placed in this space where they could accommodate 3,840 mice.

Handsome guys and beautiful girls, food and clothing are free of worries, all seasons are like spring, without natural enemies or natural disasters...

This day is simply too pleasant! At first, they were not in a hurry to embrace the happy life that suddenly came, but sniffed the entire manor. After getting familiar with it, a fierce battle started:

Count the territory and divide the fields.

It was not until they determined their respective territories and warned the outside mice not to disturb them that they began to pair, intimately and comfortably breed.

John Calhoun also wrote down his first question:

Even if there is sufficient food, safe environment, as a territory, and breeding, mice will still fight and will soon form small groups based on families.

Perhaps, utopia is far from perfect as we imagined.

Then, the situation of "utopia" became worse and worse. There is a Chinese saying: "One male and one female, three hundred and five years a year", which means that mice have extremely strong reproductive ability and very fast.

Especially in this kind of lucky nest that eats delicious food and drinks spicy food every day, the number will double every 55 days.

Just think about it with warmth and warmth. The mouse is no exception.

By day 315, the number of rats reached 620! One peak! But from this day on, things have changed significantly:

First, the growth of the number slowed down, extending to double every 145 days.

Next, the mouse's behavior became chaotic.

First of all, the male rat.

The male rat is no longer keen on, performs the mission of inheriting the family line, and then turns to grab the territory, violently bite, and resolutely kill the other party!

A defeated male rat will lose its social status and choose to escape social interaction.

Next is the female mouse.

Once the male rat is defeated, injured or died in the fight, and cannot protect the family, the female rat stands up and uses violent means to defend its rights. As the violence escalates and the fight escalates, the female rat naturally cannot take full advantage of taking care of the young rats. As a result, a group of young rats who have not yet been weaned died of breastfeeding;

Those who survive will also be expelled from the door by the female rats filled with irritability and anxiety. As for the young rats, the situation is even worse.

Because their father was injured or abandoned by their father, they were then expelled by their mother; because of the lack of education of their parents, they had no idea how to be a normal mouse.

In the end, it was abandoned by society.

Another fact is that bad behaviors such as violent attacks and passive avoidance from the previous generation were accepted and passed on by the young rats... According to John Calhoun's observation and records, by day 600, the social system of the "rat utopia" had completely collapsed and its behavior was completely lost.

Mainly manifested in:

a. The mortality rate of young mice is as high as 96%;

b. Similar species kill each other and eat each other, the female rat eats young rats. They eat both themselves and others' mice;

c. Sexual. Confused behavior, male rats and male rats mate with each other;

d. The rats who chose to escape social interaction became increasingly depressed and gradually became "home rats".

After everyone went to bed, the "home rats" came out to eat; they did not participate in any activities, including courtship and mating;

e. The behavior of the new generation of mice is becoming increasingly strange. Since there is no concept of mating, raising or participating in society, they spend all their time eating, sleeping and combing their hair, and self-appreciating, and are called "beautiful people" by Calhoun.

The most terrifying thing is-

The female mice began to refuse mating and stopped giving birth altogether.

Next, only death, death, death.

The number of rats decreased in a fault until the last rat disappeared.

This day was May 23, 1973. After 1,780 days, the mouse utopia "Universe 25" that seemed extremely beautiful and had a good life, declared collapse.

The experiment ends. (Excerpt from "This is a "rat utopia" experiment, it's terrible to think about it carefully!" author Da Lao Wang)
Chapter completed!