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Peña-Guzmán, David M. (2017) Can nonhuman animals commit suicide?. Animal Sentience 20(1)
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David M. Peña-Guzmán, Can nonhuman animals commit suicide?
Abstract
Many people believe that only humans have the cognitive and behavioral capacities needed for suicidal behavior, such as reflexive subjectivity, free will, intentionality, or awareness of death. Three counterarguments — based on (i) negative emotions and psychopathologies among nonhuman animals, (ii) the nature of self-destructive behavior, and (iii) the problem of model fidelity in suicide research — suggest that self-destructive and self-injurious behaviors among human and nonhuman animals vary along a continuum.
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10.51291/2377-7478.1201
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