For that matter, even if they did have the opportunity, livestock species may not have the abstract reasoning abilities to recognize that suicide is even a possible thing.
Pigs might have the intelligence for that, but for cows and chickens, I doubt it. It’s not like suicide is an evolutionarily favorable adaptation, it’s a product of abstract reasoning about death that most animals are not likely to be be capable of.
For that matter, even if they did have the opportunity, livestock species may not have the abstract reasoning abilities to recognize that suicide is even a possible thing.
Pigs might have the intelligence for that, but for cows and chickens, I doubt it. It’s not like suicide is an evolutionarily favorable adaptation, it’s a product of abstract reasoning about death that most animals are not likely to be be capable of.