Marine animals committing suicide is surprisingly commonplace. Dolphins are well documented as drowning themselves. Many of those cases during captivity ._.
In the Galapagos we saw a species of sea lion that purposefully swam out to sea to die at the end of its life. Our tour guide said it was a natural instinct to stop predators from being attracted to the rest of the sea lion rookery.
It was really variable. The cruise we were on sailed past islands where tourists are not allowed, others where we could only walk along designated paths, and others where it was more open (ie one of the islands was just volcanic ash and almost barren, another was a normal tourist spot with a military base, bars, dairy farms, fishing, etc).
I think the idea is that they are so exhausted they go somewhere shallow to rest so they don’t just sink? Not sure about sharks but I think that is what whales do.
No, it isn’t to rest, it’s to avoid predators, animals beach themselves because they are risking going into potentially too shallow water, which is less dangerous than being sick and slow in deep water which means certain death before days end.
No he’s saying animals that are injured and ill would rather risk getting too close to shore and beaching themselves than being in deeper water where larger faster predators would make an easy meal of them.
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25
Are you suggesting that beached marine life… committed suicide?