Penguin suicide (Encounters At The End Of The World, 2007)

Some penguins commit suicide, walking away from the sea, alone, towards their demise Penguins are amazing creatures, living in some of the harshest conditions in the world. They have an extremely sociable behavior for birds, they have big egos, busy sex lives, and they also commit suicide. We don’t know why this happens. Sometimes, some penguins just head on to the middle of the icy desert, far away from the nourishing water and their feeding and breeding grounds, where they could only meet their doom. It seems unlikely that they just get disoriented, because if you take a penguin and put it back in one of its familiar places, even inside its colony, it just goes back to the same place again. It’s like the mountains are calling to them. I couldn’t find any peer reviewed study for this, and for now, this remains just an observed behavior – with no proposed underlying mechanism, with no theory behind it. The penguins seem to experience some sort of depression-like state, and as far as anyon