[adamwong246]

I wish I could run a few of these experiments. Like, what if you continuously increase the size of the pen? What if you introduce some sort of predator or limit the food? What if you give the rats birth control so you can prevent the "bomb then bust" population curve? What if you continuously remove the alphas? What if you continuously remove the non-alphas?

[golergka]

You could really fit at VaultTec!

[Asooka]

You can, in fact, buy a dozen pet mice and build a pen like that. In fact that's what breeders do regularly. There are no laws against it.

[nisegami]

This reply is an infohazard.

[jayski]

What if you temporarily remove the neglected pups, care for them while young, teach them to operate in a "normal" rat society and then reinsert them?

[throwup238]

That's how they train the League of Assassins so I think that generally ends in a Ra's al Ghul revenge scenario...

[rsynnott]

Ah, Mouse Ceaușescu.

[Log_out_]

What if the rat behavior was evolutionary adapted to the boom and bust cycles aka they are loopdeformed? What if it is against ratgods directives to not max out rathaven? What if we all are?

[newzisforsukas]

You could...