Do humans suffer more than animals?

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Some wild animals taken into captive will starve themselves to death, so maybe a form of suicide.

Animals feel pain, I saw animal videos where someone dies or an animal died, they can grieve like humans too. Animals can treat their babies better than humans can with their children. I rather spend time with animals than alot of people.

I think human animals and other similar animals experience the same pain, but suffering is the reaction to pain (whether physical or emotional pain).

In some ways humans are more equipped to manage our suffering because we can understand what is happening and can try to think about it in a calm and reasoned way. For instance if we have to have a somewhat painful medical procedure we know what to expect, whereas an animal would just be taken by surprise and terrified.

But it also works the other way: humans can make ourselves stressed out and scared by overthinking and by our expectations, and letting our imagination run wild, but an animal takes things as they come, which is sometimes a much better way of coping with inevitable pain.

Humans are animals, at least according to modern biological classification. We are part of the animal kingdom.

I think that animals suffer more than humans. Look at all the house pets who suffer every day from abuse and neglect through the hands of their own owners. If people decide that they no longer want their pets, they should give them to people who do want pets, than none of this would happen. How stupid can people be?

In one of Temple Grandin's books about animal psychology (I think it's "Animals in Translation," but don't have a copy handy), she gave an answer to this based on her years of hands-on experience improving the welfare of farm animals. She says that compared to other animals (well, mammals and birds at least), humans seem to cope significantly worse with physical pain. But, counterintuitively, we have MORE ability to endure psychological suffering. Makes sense when you think about it- if someone psychologically torments a dog, it doesn't have the intellectual resources to understand what has happened and to deal with how the abuse has distorted its thought processes.