Post-Darwin skepticism and run-of-the-mill suicide : commentary on Peña-Guzmán on animal suicide

Commentary on Peña-Guzmán, D.M. (2017). Can nonhuman animals commit suicide? Animal Sentience 20(1). Peña-Guzmán's depiction of the opponent of animal suicide as a conservative is a straw man. It is possible to accept that animals are self-conscious and reflexive yet still reject the view that they have the mental wherewithal to commit run-of-the-mill suicide. That animal behaviour can be positioned on a continuum of self-destructive behaviour does not establish that animals can intentionally kill themselves.