Wild animal suffering
SUFFERING EXPERIENCED BY NONHUMAN ANIMALS IN NATURE THROUGH CAUSES SUCH AS DISEASE, INJURY, STARVATION, NATURAL DISASTERS, AND KILLINGS BY OTHER ANIMALS
Suffering of wild animals; Wild-animal suffering; Wild animal welfare; Religious views on wild animal suffering; Pain in wild animals
Wild animal suffering is the suffering experienced by nonhuman animals living outside of direct human control, due to harms such as disease, injury, parasitism, starvation and malnutrition, dehydration, weather conditions, natural disasters, and killings by other animals, as well as psychological stress. Some estimates indicate that these individual animals make up the vast majority of animals in existence.