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Summary
An anthropologist proves that animals really do experience emotions, describing through a number of specific cases how elephants, housecats and baboons exhibited signs of grieving upon experiencing a loss of a mate, sibling or child. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: on grief and love
- Keening for Carson the cat
- A dog's best friend
- Mourning on the farm
- Why bunnies get depressed
- Elephant bones
- Do monkeys mourn?
- Chimpanzees, cruel to be kind
- Bird love
- Sea of emotion: dolphins, whales, and turtles
- No boundaries: cross-species grief
- Animal suicide?
- Ape grief
- On bison death in Yellowstone and obituaries of animals
- Writing grief
- The prehistory of grief.