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beardie barmy
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 Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject: i was wondering |
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| forgive me if this sounds stupid but i was wondering is there only humans that have the ability to commit suicide do other animals need to do this in order to survive Ive heard that some spiders do and there offspring eat the parent ? |
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Scott W
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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I doubt very much if any animal takes it's own life due to depression or misguided following but there must be quite a few examples of animals that die in order for the next generation to survive.
Can't think of any right now as I'm about to leave work but I'm sure others can  
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Peter Parrot
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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What about when "Flossy" hurled herself off the edge of that cliff rather than face (well perhaps face isn`t the right phrase to use) the Stroudster?? 
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Peter Parrot wrote: | | What about when "Flossy" hurled herself off the edge of that cliff rather than face (well perhaps face isn`t the right phrase to use) the Stroudster?? |
I heard he ran down the cliff and caught her, no hands!
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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They push back harder on the edge of the cliff 
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Peter Parrot
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps "Flossy" saw you coming!
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andyj
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| what about lemmings or is that just a myth?! |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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I thought that with Lemmings, every so often there is a "bumper" crop of them when conditions are favourable and that they get so densely populated that they have been seen falling off cliffs. I have an account of it on DVD somewhere (good old David Attenborough) so I will have a hunt for it. 
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Scott W
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| andyj wrote: | | what about lemmings or is that just a myth?! |
The suicide part is a myth but they certainly do have population explosions which can then lead to mass migrations and dies offs.
The majority of animals that die to allow future generations will be insects, I also think Salmon basically kill themselves to get back to a breeding location, using all their resources to get there with just enough left to spawn then die (or a large % do). Don't squid also die in big numbers at the end of a breeding season?
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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Some eels do I think.
(Die from the exhaustion of the journey to the breeding grounds)
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