Do animals commit suicide? Does it matter?

Crisis

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-4

  Preti, Antonio ^a  

^a Centro Medico Genneruxi   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODEL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 79952585004     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000077     Document Type: Editorial

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