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Do Animals Commit Suicide?
« on: August 23, 2007, 07:52:36 PM »
Do Animals Commit Suicide? - They experience psychological pain and depression
By: Stefan Anitei, Science Editor - Softpedia


 
Animals, too, experience a profound feeling of sadness when their play/hunt/sex partner dies. Those studying the behavior of wild and domestic animals come with an increasing number of cases proving that animals are capable of pure sorrow when they lose someone close to them. Somehow, this behavior is linked to self-conscience, thus only "brainy" animals, like mammals and some birds, consciously commit suicide.

It is hard to say if animals commit suicide. An animal will not do this because of a sudden dread, or an excessive emotion. As they cannot ... speak, it's difficult to assess if there is a true suicide.

But when a dog or a cat, following the death of their master, refuse food dying of hunger, we can conclude that this is an unwitting consequence of the pain they feel. But when the animal throws itself from a height, it's hard to believe this is a casual act or the effect of its anxiety.

This case was seen in a natural reserve in Zimbabwe: chased from their pride, the luck seemed to have encountered a pair of old hungry male lions. They cornered a warthog, but the animal escaped in the last moment in a den. One of the lions, pushed by the hunger, tried to follow it, but he got trapped in the narrow hole. His partner tried to help him, pulling him out with the paw, but when the trapped lion started roaring of pain, he stopped.

The trapped lion died asphyxiated, and the next day, his partner hardly managed to pull out his corpse. Sooner, the second lion was found dead next to the body of the other. He had refused to go hunting, and died
of hunger.

Dogs are known for their strong affection feelings, and stories with suicidal dogs abound. Dogs grown together get so bound one to each other, that often do not survive to the loss of one of them. One owner had an airdale and a fox-terrier, who were always hanging together.

One day, the fox-terrier was crashed by a car and died. The owner buried it in the garden. The playful airdale changed its behavior, did not leave the tomb, refused food, and was haunting like a phantom during the night like looking for its friend. Few days later, the airdale was found dead next to the tomb of its friend.

But this attachment of the dogs is also applied to their human masters. This story occurred in Rome: the owner of Shastra, a Spanish cockerel, died. When the corpse was pulled out of the house, the dog tossed itself from the third level. It just broke one leg. It was brought to the veterinarian but once again home, the pulled out itself from the leash and threw itself again.

This time it died. Perhaps, the places in which the dog played so many times with its master could have recalled the dog such painful records that it could not resist and suicided.

This case occurred in Ostiglia (also Italy): Franz, a German shepherd dog, was laying on the railways line, near the railway station. Workers always chased away with stones the dog, but soon after the dog returned, and one day, the dog met with the Verona-Bologna train...

Franz had lost his master, condemned two weeks before to one year in jail. Since she had disappeared, the animal refused food, haunting through the city, like a suffering soul missing a beloved one.

This case occurred in the Farnese palace (Paris): a white Angora tomcat chased restlessly a pussy cat next door. But the female was indifferent to his advances, and one day the tomcat threw himself through the windows and died. The owner said because of the unshared love...

An 8-year-old girl had a cat which she surrounded with all her care and affection. The two were very bound. But the child died of a sudden condition, and everybody forgot in a such a difficult moment about the cat. When they remembered about the animal, it was gone.

Three months later, a scratch was heard at the door. It was the cat, weakened and with sad eyes. The cat refused food or caresses; it went to the girl's room, looked around, went to the open window and tossed itself: it died with the skull crashed on the pavement.

Monkeys too react in the same manner when losing a partner. Many times in Zoos, when one monkey in a pair dies, the partner refuses food, dying a few days later. Monkeys are highly intelligent, and form strong bounds with the partner.

Of course, the suicide also occurs amongst dolphins, animals considered the second after apes in what concerns intelligence level. In a Greek gulf, a pair of dolphins had been living for years. But one day the fishermen noticed that the male could not swim properly and floated with the belly up. Few days later, the male died. The female pushed the corpse, trying to keep it to the surface to "breathe".

When a storm begun, the body was taken and smashed to the rocks. Then, the female threw herself to the rocks, sharing the same faith with her partner.

As said, some birds, with a more complex behavior, can suicide, like parrots.

In a pair of pet love birds, the male got an injury that killed him in one hour. The female, witnessing the sufferance of her partner till he died, imitated all his movements, like she would have suffered the same way like him. She kept on imitating this even after her partner died, and this had a harming effect on her inner organs. Her vitality dropped, and she died soon.

But sometimes animals seem to suicide linked to depression, when serotonin ("happiness levels") drop to dangerous low levels, which is a much more common cause of suicide in humans, than longing.

A giraffe at Paris Zoo broke its head wittingly by the walls of its shelter, after a period of several days in which manifested signs of sadness and depression.

A 12-year-old lioness in an American Zoo had remained pregnant thrice, but each time she gave birth to weak cubs, which died soon. After the last pregnancy, she failed in the most severe depression. For several days she had refused food, and suddenly, she experienced a desperation crisis, starting to chew her tail as long as she reached. Than she started to chew one of her paws, and none could say the final results, if the keepers had not killed her. Post-partum depression is common also in women ...

In a English case, a farmer, renown for his brutality, bought a horse. The seller warned him not to use the whip for driving the horse. But two days later, the farmer bit violently the horse. Suddenly, the animal started running on a meadow surrounded from three parts by fences, and on a fourth side, there was a cliff dominating the sea shore. The horse galloped directly to the cliff, smashing itself on the rocks below.

In some animals, sex is pure suicidal, at least for the males. In praying mantis the female starts eating the male while still copulating, head first! And in some spiders, in which the male is a pygmy compared to female, sex is followed by its own sacrifice in the jaws of the female. In the end, males are just a piece of protein for the hungry eggs developing females. Is this a suicidal act of the male? Rather no, as he primarily has sex on his mind.

Another issue: Lemmings do not commit suicide! Each 4 years there is a cyclic demographical boom of the lemmings (small arctic rodents) followed by a desperate massive migration during which many die throwing themselves into the rivers, lakes and sea.

It has been regarded as a collective suicide, conscious or involuntary, caused by over-population. In reality, being solitary rodents by nature, when the population booms, the stronger lemmings drive the weaker and younger ones off long before the food is depleted.

The young lemmings disperse in random directions looking for vacant territory. Geographical features constrain their movements and channel them into a relatively narrow corridor and large numbers can build up leading to social friction, distress and eventually a mass panic can follow and they flee in all directions, but they do not deliberately march into the sea; this is just pure fantasy.


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Re: Do Animals Commit Suicide?
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2007, 07:55:41 PM »
Among dog named Neptune who lived with us for 13 years dili mokaon pagmolarga nako balik sa Silliman sauna. He won't eat for three days, and my mother had to assure him that I would still be coming back.

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« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2007, 01:53:57 AM »
My 3yr old dachshund committed suicide after giving birth to 5 lovely pups. I guess she missed her mom Ginger terribly.

I felt so devastated.  :'(

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« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2007, 01:57:23 AM »

The small dog of my brother-i-law decided not to wake-up after a long sleep of hunger, the reason was the barkadas forgot the dog busy playing mahjong.

Nagsuicide or nabuntas?

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« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2007, 01:59:12 AM »

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« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2007, 02:16:02 AM »
Nabuntas means namatay tawon sa kagutom.

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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2007, 02:20:31 AM »
Nabuntas means namatay tawon sa kagutom.

wala intawn oi...mas maka kaon pa gani ang dogie ug lami kay sa namo, never gyud nahitabo nga nagutman ang ako precious dogie...

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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2007, 02:24:22 AM »
ginger, unsaon nangahubog naman, so they forgot to feed the dog.  b4 i forget i must have to report to work.... hear yahhhh 2moro ok?

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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2007, 04:22:03 AM »
the tarsier is known to asphyxiate (?) itself when severely stressed...

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« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2007, 10:08:30 AM »
yes, motuo ko ana. naa koy dove sauna nag-inosara lang, naghikog. lain baya mag-inosara ka.

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« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2007, 10:25:31 AM »

gi-unsa niya paghikog El Mundo?

ninglukso nga wa gamita pako?

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« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2007, 10:32:53 AM »
mootong.... kung imong tan-awon mura dili siya moginhawa aron  mamatay.

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« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2007, 10:56:03 AM »
basi ug na kuyawan to. maka-on ba nang salampati?

in my high school college days, was able to eat "iro" from my girlfriend, perti namong hab-hab kay lami man, another girlfriend asked what kind of meat kay lami man.... then the

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« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2007, 03:10:45 AM »
yes, motuo ko ana. naa koy dove sauna nag-inosara lang, naghikog. lain baya mag-inosara ka.

tinuod gyud na, kanang mga wild birds dili na pwede mag inusara kay anad na sila ug naay kauban mao to nga ning lukso iyang dove nga wa gamita ang pako hahahhahahhaha (nag agik-ik ko diri morag bu****)

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« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2007, 05:20:17 AM »
Wyble, i am sure gipakuratan tong El Mundo and then she/he collapsed. Maybe he forgots to give
a mouth to mouth aid.....namatay hinoun ug dayon,

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« Reply #15 on: August 30, 2007, 10:27:46 AM »
Wyble, i am sure gipakuratan tong El Mundo and then she/he collapsed. Maybe he forgots to give
a mouth to mouth aid.....namatay hinoun ug dayon,


bwa hahahahahahaha ;D

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« Reply #16 on: August 30, 2007, 08:13:07 PM »
ang dove kay murag natulingig man.. i tried to give medication. akong gitagaan og calpol..kay naghope pa ko nga mabuhi ang dove... pero namatay gihapon. akong gilubong.

do you know nga ang dove ray animal nga dili masundog ni Satan? si Satan puwede magpakairo, baboy, etc...pero dili siya mahimong dove. ang dove symbolizies the Holy Spirit, purity of the heart,...

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« Reply #17 on: August 31, 2007, 06:28:20 PM »
Hi EL.... dis-a god ka ining imong related story... is this written in the Bible? the first time i heard this , is this true? am  not reading Bible anymore.... ningsamot kog kalibog.

good to know otherwise, perti gjod puno-a  ug  mga Satans sa VENICE..... the whole area of St. Markus Palace is covered of
thousands....and thousands of doves.... magpajong gyod ka aron di ka ma-igo sa ite.

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« Reply #19 on: September 01, 2007, 04:02:36 AM »
Wyble.... i like the way u  ;D ;D ;D ;D not too loud otherwise your baby cat will miaaaaaaaaaaaaawww and :'(

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« Reply #20 on: September 01, 2007, 06:02:28 AM »
Bams, bahakhakera man gyud ko kaayu oi. dili man ko pwedeng mag demure mag heart attack ko ana...

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« Reply #21 on: September 01, 2007, 06:04:42 AM »
Na ajaw dihag binu-ang matod pa ni El Mundo nga na heart attack ang iyang dove. :'( :'( :'(

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« Reply #22 on: September 14, 2007, 02:21:12 PM »
Oo oi!  Mag-suicide pod!

Daghan bayang cases nga nag-suicide kay gimaotan sila sa ilang nawng!  so, mag-suicide diay jud pod ang mga animals!

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« Reply #23 on: September 14, 2007, 02:31:21 PM »
Bitaw, ang Tarsier kay mag-suicide kung prisohon... dili mokaon, usahay kay ipakog nila ilang ulo...

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« Reply #24 on: September 14, 2007, 02:38:19 PM »
Bambi,

Maayo na lang nasalaag ko ani nga thread. Bambi, you saved me from tons of stress today. My wife just served me banana turon made of sab-a gikan pa sa Tokyo and I almost choked from laughter. Never had this good a laugh for a long time. Bibo pa pud ka sa personal?

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« Reply #25 on: September 14, 2007, 02:42:08 PM »
Bambs, kung ikaw ang pet-owner, mawaa siguro ilang depression! Siguro mahimo silang reproductive instead of suicidal.

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« Reply #26 on: October 10, 2007, 05:16:08 AM »
Bambi,

Maayo na lang nasalaag ko ani nga thread. Bambi, you saved me from tons of stress today. My wife just served me banana turon made of sab-a gikan pa sa Tokyo and I almost choked from laughter. Never had this good a laugh for a long time. Bibo pa pud ka sa personal?

Hi Benelynne!

I am also very excited that another one is/was happy because of this site,  instead i only heard Ms da Binsi most of the time  ;D and complaining hapit na sija maka-ihi believing that all are just jokes.  Well, sometimes true stories made you happy aside from Barbaro's very interesting/funny jokes, isn't?  Yes, the dog hab-hab story was real....it was lot of fun during my UB days, karne sa una is a luxury, di ba? .But sorry to say, our dog host died two years ago (the prettiest/youngest of us 5 before, Baybee was her name, she was at the early 40's.   :( and she left 7 young kids.

We were 2x in Venice for holidays, my husband ordered fried chicken for the another menu were very expensive.  When it was served....."perti ra jong gamaya sa chicken", giingnan naho akong bana, na nakuha-an ug usa ang dove sa gawas!
giloud na hinoun...hapit dina kan-on ang salampati- and that i was very sure. I forced him to eat his order otherwise, he was interested to exchange my more expensive meal. Wa siya kuyapi?

In person, I am as crazy as  my 85 years old Mother. Who used to said: "MAajo pa injo kong tawgon ug bu-ang kay sa tigulang", sayonan ka? Sus, maniko pa god ug makakita ug gwapo. ;)





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« Reply #27 on: October 10, 2007, 05:42:41 AM »
Bambs, kung ikaw ang pet-owner, mawaa siguro ilang depression! Siguro mahimo silang reproductive instead of suicidal.

To this quoted question.....Benelynne, at the moment I have 2 cats (magsoon, a boy named Billy and a girl named Muschi).The two live with us like in paradise as our only heirs, just imagine each one of them get his/her own toilet with
a draft free ventilation.  In fact, I am the one who almost to be depressive coz Muschi, she is really a cat-bitch, motuyo ug kalibang not in her toilet if she will not get what she wants.Aja, i told you she is a woman.....inborn gjod. It is very  :-[ing if you will take with you an unexpected guests. And Billy, a good boy cat, gitakigan gahapon kay natunok diay sa ahong cactus plants, got a fever of 39.8, 2x injections, tablets for 4 days, kimpang-kimpang na when I arrived too late from a lake party last Sat. evening. And 2x visit to a Veterinarian was doubled costly as the dove in Venice, the cat was 69,35 Euro nominal value tungod lang sa tunok sa kaktus. Sayunan ka ana? And that is one of the reasons, I must have also to work overtime for money and to avoid pahid sa tai....my husband he is mostly blind in this case but if he is first at home..it smells brutal so.....no way


Reproduction???  No way, i don't like to have more to care, we need someone to take care of them....if we are on vacation and it is not cheap. All inclusive in Animals house must have to pay 8 Euro for the two of them. I submitted them for castration Billy and Muschi to lygit ( spelling?) Giving her an anti baby pills is more work.  So, i will not get apos in this case.

You see? They are a satisfied and happy cats.  And I almost to get crazy pahid ug hipos usahay sa ilang tai. What a hard work?





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Re: Do Animals Commit Suicide?
« Reply #28 on: October 10, 2007, 05:52:50 AM »
Bams hows Billy Bobby???

is he okay now???

i was worried kay basi naa bay virus sa kahanginan...

nawala na ijang kimpang???

Louie doesnt have kimpang now na lisa ra dagway to agi ug dinula sa ijang dad... ;D

tinuod gyud ka Bams, lisod pod mad alima ug iring,though di gyud ni sha maghugaw2x

he sometimes go out to poop and pee... i dont have problems when it comes to smell and everything...

only when it gets too cold... kay di gyud sha mogawas ug mangihi...

and we'll be going out of town tomorrow so he'll be having a sitter to check him several times a day...

if the trip takes longer, then i have to leave him sa boarding house.. liman ka...



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« Reply #29 on: October 10, 2007, 06:42:36 AM »
Billy is getting well now, he must have to take 2 tabs daily, had 2x injected, got a very high fever and now his bandage is removed.  He got infection (hubag na tiil ug ganana na tawon) now he is doing well,  Natunok siya sa ahong kaktus sa living room.  The cat is healthy and I am happy for this...Muschi was quite jealous for the much attention extended to the sick one.

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« Reply #30 on: October 10, 2007, 06:57:29 AM »
wahahhahahhahha

poor Muchi'schen is that right???

just trying to remember my german language gamay...

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Re: Do Animals Commit Suicide?
« Reply #31 on: October 10, 2007, 07:01:28 AM »
Bambi  is almost to commit suicide.....i waited too long in SHOUT!!!!!!

you promised for a coffee and then you need too loooooooong Bayat!

go to sHOUT pleaaaaaaaaseeeeeeeee

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« Reply #32 on: October 11, 2007, 01:43:51 AM »
Do Animals Commit Suicide? - They experience psychological pain and depression
By: Stefan Anitei, Science Editor - Softpedia


 
Animals, too, experience a profound feeling of sadness when their play/hunt/sex partner dies. Those studying the behavior of wild and domestic animals come with an increasing number of cases proving that animals are capable of pure sorrow when they lose someone close to them. Somehow, this behavior is linked to self-conscience, thus only "brainy" animals, like mammals and some birds, consciously commit suicide.

It is hard to say if animals commit suicide. An animal will not do this because of a sudden dread, or an excessive emotion. As they cannot ... speak, it's difficult to assess if there is a true suicide.

But when a dog or a cat, following the death of their master, refuse food dying of hunger, we can conclude that this is an unwitting consequence of the pain they feel. But when the animal throws itself from a height, it's hard to believe this is a casual act or the effect of its anxiety.

This case was seen in a natural reserve in Zimbabwe: chased from their pride, the luck seemed to have encountered a pair of old hungry male lions. They cornered a warthog, but the animal escaped in the last moment in a den. One of the lions, pushed by the hunger, tried to follow it, but he got trapped in the narrow hole. His partner tried to help him, pulling him out with the paw, but when the trapped lion started roaring of pain, he stopped.

The trapped lion died asphyxiated, and the next day, his partner hardly managed to pull out his corpse. Sooner, the second lion was found dead next to the body of the other. He had refused to go hunting, and died
of hunger.

Dogs are known for their strong affection feelings, and stories with suicidal dogs abound. Dogs grown together get so bound one to each other, that often do not survive to the loss of one of them. One owner had an airdale and a fox-terrier, who were always hanging together.

One day, the fox-terrier was crashed by a car and died. The owner buried it in the garden. The playful airdale changed its behavior, did not leave the tomb, refused food, and was haunting like a phantom during the night like looking for its friend. Few days later, the airdale was found dead next to the tomb of its friend.

But this attachment of the dogs is also applied to their human masters. This story occurred in Rome: the owner of Shastra, a Spanish cockerel, died. When the corpse was pulled out of the house, the dog tossed itself from the third level. It just broke one leg. It was brought to the veterinarian but once again home, the pulled out itself from the leash and threw itself again.

This time it died. Perhaps, the places in which the dog played so many times with its master could have recalled the dog such painful records that it could not resist and suicided.

This case occurred in Ostiglia (also Italy): Franz, a German shepherd dog, was laying on the railways line, near the railway station. Workers always chased away with stones the dog, but soon after the dog returned, and one day, the dog met with the Verona-Bologna train...

Franz had lost his master, condemned two weeks before to one year in jail. Since she had disappeared, the animal refused food, haunting through the city, like a suffering soul missing a beloved one.

This case occurred in the Farnese palace (Paris): a white Angora tomcat chased restlessly a pussy cat next door. But the female was indifferent to his advances, and one day the tomcat threw himself through the windows and died. The owner said because of the unshared love...

An 8-year-old girl had a cat which she surrounded with all her care and affection. The two were very bound. But the child died of a sudden condition, and everybody forgot in a such a difficult moment about the cat. When they remembered about the animal, it was gone.

Three months later, a scratch was heard at the door. It was the cat, weakened and with sad eyes. The cat refused food or caresses; it went to the girl's room, looked around, went to the open window and tossed itself: it died with the skull crashed on the pavement.

Monkeys too react in the same manner when losing a partner. Many times in Zoos, when one monkey in a pair dies, the partner refuses food, dying a few days later. Monkeys are highly intelligent, and form strong bounds with the partner.

Of course, the suicide also occurs amongst dolphins, animals considered the second after apes in what concerns intelligence level. In a Greek gulf, a pair of dolphins had been living for years. But one day the fishermen noticed that the male could not swim properly and floated with the belly up. Few days later, the male died. The female pushed the corpse, trying to keep it to the surface to "breathe".

When a storm begun, the body was taken and smashed to the rocks. Then, the female threw herself to the rocks, sharing the same faith with her partner.

As said, some birds, with a more complex behavior, can suicide, like parrots.

In a pair of pet love birds, the male got an injury that killed him in one hour. The female, witnessing the sufferance of her partner till he died, imitated all his movements, like she would have suffered the same way like him. She kept on imitating this even after her partner died, and this had a harming effect on her inner organs. Her vitality dropped, and she died soon.

But sometimes animals seem to suicide linked to depression, when serotonin ("happiness levels") drop to dangerous low levels, which is a much more common cause of suicide in humans, than longing.

A giraffe at Paris Zoo broke its head wittingly by the walls of its shelter, after a period of several days in which manifested signs of sadness and depression.

A 12-year-old lioness in an American Zoo had remained pregnant thrice, but each time she gave birth to weak cubs, which died soon. After the last pregnancy, she failed in the most severe depression. For several days she had refused food, and suddenly, she experienced a desperation crisis, starting to chew her tail as long as she reached. Than she started to chew one of her paws, and none could say the final results, if the keepers had not killed her. Post-partum depression is common also in women ...

In a English case, a farmer, renown for his brutality, bought a horse. The seller warned him not to use the whip for driving the horse. But two days later, the farmer bit violently the horse. Suddenly, the animal started running on a meadow surrounded from three parts by fences, and on a fourth side, there was a cliff dominating the sea shore. The horse galloped directly to the cliff, smashing itself on the rocks below.

In some animals, sex is pure suicidal, at least for the males. In praying mantis the female starts eating the male while still copulating, head first! And in some spiders, in which the male is a pygmy compared to female, sex is followed by its own sacrifice in the jaws of the female. In the end, males are just a piece of protein for the hungry eggs developing females. Is this a suicidal act of the male? Rather no, as he primarily has sex on his mind.

Another issue: Lemmings do not commit suicide! Each 4 years there is a cyclic demographical boom of the lemmings (small arctic rodents) followed by a desperate massive migration during which many die throwing themselves into the rivers, lakes and sea.

It has been regarded as a collective suicide, conscious or involuntary, caused by over-population. In reality, being solitary rodents by nature, when the population booms, the stronger lemmings drive the weaker and younger ones off long before the food is depleted.

The young lemmings disperse in random directions looking for vacant territory. Geographical features constrain their movements and channel them into a relatively narrow corridor and large numbers can build up leading to social friction, distress and eventually a mass panic can follow and they flee in all directions, but they do not deliberately march into the sea; this is just pure fantasy.


Self preservation is one of the most powerful biological forces in the universe, it even supersedes the urge to reproduce and protect ones young in some species. No. animals do not commit suicide.
An animal may grieve over the loss of a mate; this could possibly cause the animal undue stress which could possibly lead to death but not always. Most animals that are monogamous or form bonds with one mate for life (macaws and wolves) will usually pursue another mate after they lose one. Humans, the species homo sapien--a higher sentient cousin of the lower pimates, are no exception to this as well. Self preservation is biologically programmed within the hippocampus of the central nervous system; in all animalae taxa. Mammalian, avian, reptilian, amphibiae. Does not matter.





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Re: Do Animals Commit Suicide?
« Reply #33 on: October 11, 2007, 03:13:45 AM »
Tinuod gyud na Dong...

naa man gyud survival instinct ang animals mao nga dili ko motuo nga mag suicide sila...

ning abot ra gyud ang end sa ilang life span... di vah dong Insoy???

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« Reply #34 on: February 21, 2008, 10:56:35 AM »
Among dog named Neptune who lived with us for 13 years dili mokaon pagmolarga nako balik sa Silliman sauna. He won't eat for three days, and my mother had to assure him that I would still be coming back.

Mike, is Neptune still alive?

Kai bao ka, kanang iro, maka sense jud na sila. 20 minutes before my dad ever comes back from work, my dog gets anxious in the house, and already sits at the front of the door expecting his return. And whenever my dad ignores him, mo hilak na si Kaiser. He yelps and whines. Sometimes, if my dad ignores him jud, Kaiser goes in front of the master's bedroom and taps on the door with his paw and yelps until dad greets him.

Dogs truly are Man's best friend.

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