Similar with hamsters - they turn cannibal and it's usually the young they eat. Sally
sol <sol...@sweetwaterhsa.com> wrote: Interesting. I've seen a population rise and rise until overcrowding was severe in mice. And all is well for a while, but eventually they start to turn on each other and fight and kill. One day, in a cage of females and immatures with only one mature male, we found the male, dead, with his brain eaten out (the only sign of injury on him). All this occurred in a high school biology classroom, but I do feel overcrowding/overpopulation is far too often discounted when it comes to humans. And the mice, after all, were being fed no matter how many they numbered, food was never in short supply--it was simply the overcrowding, apparently, that caused the strife. sol Ode Coyote wrote: > > > Either the first set of 'theys' wins out or the planetary egology wipes >the second set out. [Oops..I meant 'ecology'] > Either way reduces the population. It's just a question of how. Unless >something new breaks, 'when' is almost predictable to within a few years. >[Most likely within your kids lifetime] > If something new does break...more and more people to bust the new system >and the crash [involving even MORE people] just gets delayed. > >Ever stop to wonder why so many young people are so self destructive these >days? > > An unsustainable cycle will cycle into destruction. It's just a common >sense given. > > > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.4 - Release Date: 1/25/2005 -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term'
