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...CALHOUN WELLING Washington...
When John Calhoun of the National Institutes of Health put wild Norway rats into a one-quarter-acre enclosure and fed them well, the normal rate of rat increase should have raised the population to 5,000 in 27 months. Instead it stabilized at about 150 adult rats. The females produced plenty of young, but they did not take care of them properly, and most of them died before maturity...
Social Stress. Anxious to learn how overcrowding does work, Calhoun put rats in four interconnected pens six feet square. Two of the pens were quickly pre-empted by boss male rats that kept harems of females and allowed no other males to mate with them. The harem females made proper nests, bore healthy young and raised them successfully. But in the other two pens, where no single males took charge, social stress was rampant. Some of the males gave the females no rest. Others turned homosexual or hid in corners. The females stopped making proper nests, and their young, born...
...John C. Calhoun...
...mixed a powerful running game with an accurate passing attack directed by quarterback Steve Gelbach to shut out Timothy Dwight College, 21 to 0. Kirkland, the third place finisher in the House League, made a second quarter score stand up as it eked out an 8-0 victory over Calhoun College...