Creatures Caves

Hey all! So i'm currently running a few different C2 worlds; i was looking to compare/contrast Nova Subterra norns with Akamai Canny norns, so i figured the best way to do that was try both. ANYWAY. In my Akamai Canny world, i'm having some seriously violence issues with my norns. They just never stop hitting each other. And they keep passing the bad behavior along to each other. Why is this really bad? I'm pretty sure they're starving themselves, because say one of the norns finally gets it in his head to go eat, and as he's eating, one of his slap-happy fellows comes up and hits him. Pain + eating = norns that wont eat. And the babies are picking up on this too (and, i suspect, being beaten within inches of their lives :/ )

And ideas on what to do about this?