Animal suicide is a topic that evokes intense debate among scientists and animal behaviorists. Obviously, people have the ability to voluntarily end their own life, but do animals do? When an animal leaves to die it is some instinctual practice of suicide or sickness or old age?
Why has more than 60 whales filled up? One whale seems to die due to illness, can not support himself to breathe, goes to a shallow waters and eventually ends (coincidentally or accidentally) at the coast, but it will dozens of people at the same time Could it be? Apart from inconvenient pollution in the waters, animal suicide has little meaning.
Animals suicide does not make sense that scientists and animal behaviorists do not attribute human emotions to animals. It is called anthropomorphization, and most people are not a big deal except that most people do it. By attributing human emotions to the behavior of animals, we can make the behavior of animals complicated. Especially, behavior considered to commit suicide. Human suicide is a violent and emotional act. If the animal is committed suicide, it means several things:
1) Animals have their own consciousness.
2) Animals recognize that certain actions or series of events end life, but that is not simply instinct.
3) Animals have emotional and / or cognitive abilities to make life and death choices.
So, do animals possess these abilities? It is easy to recognize the difference between dolphins (which can spontaneously stop breathing and drown) and ants (leave colonies if they suffer from infectious diseases), but has either committed suicide? It is difficult to say for the same reasons as saying what an animal is feeling or on a daily basis. Do they really know what they are doing, what they mean? The problem is in our words. Suicide is essentially human language. But again, all the words are human words. Many animals end their lives when they get sick, especially when the animals are part of a group or hedo, when the group is destroyed by illness, the scientist knows I believe that I did not commit suicide as I did. But will not many people suffer with neurological or physical disability? It looks like a thin line that straddles the imagination and it may be a natural reaction for all animals.
