How animals grieve
By: Barbara J. King
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780226436944
Subjects: Grief in animals
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : on grief and love; title: Keening for Carson the cat; title: A dog's best friend; title: Mourning on the farm; title: Why bunnies get depressed; title: Elephant bones; title: Do monkeys mourn?; title: Chimpanzees, cruel to be kind; title: Bird love; title: Sea of emotion : dolphins, whales, and turtles; title: No boundaries : cross-species grief; title: Animal suicide?; title: Ape grief; title: On bison death in Yellowstone and obituaries of animals; title: Writing grief; title: The prehistory of grief.