pathological withdrawal from which individuals would emerge to eat, drink and move about only when other members of the community were asleep.
Yeah, that's me alright. Of course, I'm not sure I'd call avoidance a pathology when 75% of the population is out to either fuck you or eat you...
Interesting as fuck indeed. Great post!
I've accomplished this numerous times with my fishtanks. The "Beautiful" and the "Insane" is such a perfect duality when observed in a do or die scenario in nature... unfortunately the insane always ate the beautiful as they were smart but couldn't find refuge in 40 gallons of water