J. Calhoun (1962) did an interesting experiment on brown rats.
Apparently rats like to eat alone. They take a bite of something and then they go over in a corner somewhere and eat it. So instead, they created some kind of rat cafeteria. All the rats of the colony had to go to this one location, and they could nibble or lick at the food, but they had to do it next to one another, and it was not possible to take a piece of food and eat it in private. And eventually all the rats died of stress.
There have been numerous studies of various mammals in artificial, overcrowded, abnormal social situations.
Guess what happens to a lot of dogs in animal shelters. The story doesn’t have a happy ending.
Plan accordingly.
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