cont: There has been speculation in the past that when this does happen it is because a tightly-grouped number of cows have followed each other as they search for more grass.

Most scientists generally believe that animals are incapable of committing suicide.

Even lemmings, which by popular myth throw themselves off cliffs during mating season, do not take their own lives intentionally.

Instead, evolutionary pressures cause them to feel the urge to change habitat at which point they migrate in huge droves.

WTF! Dumb & Dumber!

how awful!

Most scientists generally believe that animals are incapable of committing suicide.

During the 1960s, I worked my way through college as a Railroad Freight Conductor for the Pennsylvania RR, in Newark, NJ.

Every so often, in a regularity that was too frequent to dismiss as accidental, an obviously sick or crippled pigeon would hop up on the train track rail as the wheels of a freight car rolled toward it, ultimately crushing it to death.

The pigeons had every time and opportunity to avoid their fate, but it was clearly evident, from watching it all go down, that they had committed deliberate suicide.

It was a very sad thing to watch.