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Anonymous
Are any animals capable of suicide? Like, intentionally ending their lives for non reproductive reasons.
>> Anonymous
no.
>> Anonymous
i would say mother spiders, but they do it for their babies.
>> Anonymous
>>80596
None that actively just snuff themselves, but there are animals who simply lose the will to live and just shut down. Even when food, the right enviroment, and even company is presented, they just ignore it.
>> Anonymous
parrts without their owner stop eating and let them die...same with some dogs & cats
>> Anonymous
Damn I wonder what I did with that link of a cricket killing itself because of a parasite...
>> Anonymous
IRC some dolphins willingly beach themselves. Also on occasion massive amounts of some shrimp will beach themselves willingly (so much that an entire beach will be covered with orange).
>> Anonymous
>>80605
Dolphin is a good example, and whales have been known to do the same, but I think it's difficult to show intent in the case of shrimp.
IMO, dolphins, whales and the higher apes are the only animals that would have the mental capacity for intentional suicide. It would require the ability to plan ahead, to be aware of what actions could be taken to achieve the result, and to be aware of life and death in the first place.
>> Anonymous
>>80609
I read about some pilot whales(i think thats it) kept beaching themselves even after they were unbeached. I forgot what happened afterwards.
>> Anonymous
moar of this manga!
>> Anonymous
>>80615

Battle angel Alita. Now mr. Anonymous gets the fuck out and torrents it.
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>>80605

But... most raw shrimp are gray. They only turn orange when cooked.
>> Anonymous
Lemmings?
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>>80632
how did it take anyone so long to say that ?
>> Anonymous
>>80649
Because most people know the Disney nature "documentary" that started that legend is bullshit.
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>>80596
i asked this same question in Anthropology and my proffesor informed me that these three sibling chimps she was working with killed themselves.

One was kind of crazy and slammed it's head against the floor nonstop till it just died. One was not doing so well and seemed depressed and apparently used some peices of metal to cut it's own arms and it bled to death. (in before emo chimps!)
And the third drowned herself.

And apparently birds sometimes will fly into things on purpose.
>> Anonymous
a long time ago, i was watching some documentary about chimps, and this one very young chimp's mother passed away, and the young chimp refused to leave her even though the rest of the family was moving on and kept coming back to get him to go with them...he stuck w/ his mom's dead body and passed away too
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>>80679
lol
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>>80609
Since crows and grey parrots appear to on the same level of mental complexity as great apes, they might do it too. I've heard of crows getting emo if their lifetime partner passes away, but not of observed suicide. But I guess it's a bit harder to say when a bird has committed suicide, especially in the wild...
>> Anonymous
Monkeys have committed suicide by eating their feces.
>> Anonymous
http://nynerd.com/cricket-commits-suicide-because-of-parasitic-worm/

pleasant dreams /an/
>> Anonymous
I'm willing to accept that the documentary is fake, yet I can't understand why ol' Walt would hate lemmings enough to throw buckets of them off of a cliff and tape it.
>> Anonymous
>>80737
Walt was the original /b/tard
>> Anonymous
>>80737
He didn't hate the lemmings, he loved the money.
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>>80710
While Swans doesn't have the same mental capacity as crows and grey parrots, they can also get very depressed when their life partners die. They commit suicide by stop eating, but I doubt it's intentional.

>>80609
Old whales that are prone to die of age usually beach themself. If the whale is a leader sometimes the rest of the family just blindly follows and dies as well.
>> Anonymous
>>80734
ewwhh... I hear some RIAA parasite lawyers have caused people to do the same.
>> Anonymous
>>80737
If he thought it would give him fame and money, he would shoot his mother and write racial slurs over the walls with her brains. That's the kind of soulless asswipe walt disney was.
>> Anonymous
Orcas and dolphins have been known to kill themselves in captivity because they just can't handle being in such a small space. There was a case of a dolphin repeatedly swimming into the wall of its enclosure until it died.