Entries Tagged as ‘Ethology’

October 1, 2007

A Tale of Inner City

The Virus
by Marc D. Goldfinger
Taken from the Diaries of the Damned — written before the Tales of Communion——Insect-O-War
The day was gray on the interstate to Inner City and Dean sat in the passenger seat fitting a new collar onto the dropper.  He stripped the edge off of a dollar bill, ran the strip of paper [...]

April 17, 2007

Virginia Tech, Behavioural Sinks, The Killings

Ethology is the science of the psychology of species behaviour.
When a species of animal becomes overpopulated or even just feels overpopulated, it begins to go insane. Experiments have been done with rats in the lab and with deer on an island. When the population reaches critical mass, behaviours change.
Even rats have courting rituals [...]