Animal Suicides Might Tell Us About Human Behavior

--Animal suicidal behavior may shed some light on human behavior.

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Broadcast on January 30, 2012

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[TheJawsusNSexmanShow]

whales beach themselves because of sonar interference and disorientation

[trajan74]

I saw on Animal Planet where a female elephant was killing and EATING villagers who killed her baby. The men even believed she was hunting them. Now this doesn't prove anything but if elephants can feel concern for a herd member trapped in mud pools, mourn their dead, or start eating meat in total violation of their biology(we might even call this insanity like eating rocks or dirt), why is the idea they might commit suicide so far-fetched?

[nothuman100]

To the humans who say other animals dont have souls..... dont you say that they have four feet.... so they'v got more souls than a human

[Remus0387]

I do believe animals can get depression from loss of family members, that they could develop suicidal tendencies, not too sure but it's always possible, if they understand jealousy and revenge, suicide not that far off.

[natyanayaki]

@trajan74 Not to mention the high occurrence of mammal mothers who are in captivity and mistreated who not only abandon their young, but actively seek to kill their young. It's actually very similar behavior of women in extremely sexist cultures who kill their daughters, so that their daughters won't live the life that they did.

[natyanayaki]

@hugoegbert79 And when you say "animals aren't aware" do you mean that "non-human animals" aren't aware? I never understand people who are so arrogant to think that humans are the only animal species who are aware of mortality, love, family or whatever...

[natyanayaki]

@hugoegbert79 Another instance, my grandmother has a few pet stray dogs, one of them had a litter of 3 pups. 2 died, she screamed, cried, made a scene, was about to run and jump off a balcony ledge until she heard the surviving pup whimper. Then again, you think whales and dolphins oxygenate themselves in water so...

[natyanayaki]

@hugoegbert79 An aunt of mine had a pair of wild birds who lived in a tree at her place year round for years, they lived there, raised their young there, then one day one of the pair fell dead and my aunt saw the other bird climb up the tree and dive, didn't flap it's wings, crushed it's skull and died.

[ridewave444]

Very interesting. I'm sure we'll keep getting closer to finding some answers on this in time.

[Tounushi]

@hugoegbert79

"they need to remain in water in order to oxygenate themselves"

:facepalm:

Whales are mammals that breathe air...

They don't sweat, however.  They need to stay wet in order to regulate their body temperature.

[hugoegbert79]

Animals aren't aware of their own mortality, and so I'd guess that suicide isn't something they could contemplate. As to the beached whale comments-how would a whale know that if they beached themselves they'd die? They don't understand that they need to remain in water in order to oxygenate themselves, so how could they know that beaching themselves would lead to death? This all sounds highly dubious.