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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizalba" data-source="post: 233675" data-attributes="member: 31253">I was just about to mention that entomologist Richard interviewed! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I think she repetitively keeps massive groups of them together successfully too? Which surprised me after everything I'd hear about them going wrong. Very interesting, your conclusion that there is a lot to get right sounds accurate. Sadly my communal balfouri failed <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> I followed all the guidance about staggered feeding etc but there were only 6 of them and they were tiny babies when they arrived. I suspect they were separated from their mother too early as I know some people keep massive balfouri groups and never get any cannibalism. For both species maybe there is something in the big community being beneficial and them being left with the mother - maybe the dynamics of the group work then and there is some kind of social hierarchy?</blockquote>