Can Animals Commit Suicide?

Yes they do actually. I have read an article on animal suicides.Even you can see some vodeos on yotube!

Yes Kumaresh, animals have been found to commit suicide in cases of extreme stress or when they realized that they cannot escape from enemy!

I found an interesting article on this subject:

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/do-animals-commit-suicide/

Thanks Kalyani and Sajeetharan for your inputs!

Thanks for sharing article. It is nice article.

It is really very amazing fact at least for me!!

This is very interesting fact indeed. Thanks for starting this thread Kumaresh.

Yes animals can commit suicide, some time back i heard that few buffaloes or cows not sure suiciding due to polluted water that they were getting. Let me search some article regarding this and ill try to post it here..

Wow.That's really interesting to note that animals also have feelings like human beings.

That is true Meean, their behavior is very much like humans in many cases.

An interesting fact, in 1916, an elephant was tried and hung for murder in Erwin, Tennessee. Just like humans are!! :) :) :)

Kumresh sir thanks for sharing this interesting threat.

Animals also suicide?When human suicide they lowers to the rank of animals I think.

WE need to probe in animal psychology. It is unlikely that an animal would attempt suicide consciously. The animals work more by instinct rather than planning or conscious efforts. Some animals may probably have instinct to kill themselves. The tiny insects in rainy season burn themselves on light. This has given rise to concept of shama and parwana in Urdu poetry. But we can not say that this is suicide.

hey this really intersting to hear... i searched many articels related dis topic and learnd many new intresting thing,,, thanx u

Yes. Such suicidal tendencies are found by the experts in case of birds.In Jatinga Valley, there is a bird which commit suicide.
In stories also we have read that rats commits suicide when their population gets increased abnormally.

really a strange things that animals can commit suicide......thanks kumaresh for sharing....

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Yes i too heard some cases..recently it was shown in news that a pig without any reason was revolving around a temple and after sometime it collapsed due to dyhydration..Know one could stop it itseem..Really i couldnt understand whether to belive or not...

But in really i feel that animals do feel like humans.. :) Nice thread Kumaresh :) :)

As Devyani has mentioned about Jatinga birds who are prone to commit suicide and it still remains a mystery.

Very interesting article about the bird "JATINGA"... Thanks for sharing Chinmoy.

Thanks Deepti.Here goes a pix relating to it.

Yeah -- Good one.. I think this pic is from the link (article) you provided... :)
Good information. Thank you.

A FRIENDS IT IS TRUE ANIMALS ALSO DO SUICIDE, WHEN THEY ARE TOO MUCH AFRAID FROM THEIR ENEMIES AND FROM THEIR ILLNESS.
REALLY ITS A INTRESTING TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION.

Yes . It is good topic indeed. Have known about a few fact with this thread.. :)

@Jyothi, Donot use complete bold letters to reply.