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Mouse Utopia experiment doesn’t give mice space it’s just not the kind of restriction that’s initially obvious.

The modern take is when you put animals into environments well outside what they evolved for you get seemingly bizarre behavior.



I don’t think we need a study to understand that someone who always gets everything they want is usually a spoiled brat.


That’s exactly the kind of assumption you should want someone to rigorously examine.

But more importantly it was not happening in those experiments.




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