Scott Adams

The mice were happy.

Their fur looked good.

They were doing really well.

And just about, I would say, three to five months in, he started to notice unusual behaviors.

In the town square, as every mouse had to cross to get to food and water, there would be interactions.

And sometimes those interactions would start becoming violent.

And as they interfaced with each other.

And then he started noticing a pecking order.

And that pecking order would be some males would refuse to leave their lair and would have other mice bring food back for them.

you know, throughout the day, very much like, yeah, DoorDash, right?

And very much like the decline of the Greco empire in Greece and Roman empire to some degree.

That started to really become very profound.

Ultimately in the town square, there would become more and more violent interactions and other mice would watch it almost like a gladiator type of situation.

Mice would be cut up.

They would have scars.

Other mice would join.

There would be packs that form.

But the ones that were not interacting, he called them, Calhoun called them the beautiful ones, primarily male.

And in fact, I think all of them were male.

There was one female, but they got knocked out when you actually read the research paper.