How Animals Grieve
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]
Format: Book
Description: 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Examines the nature of grief in animals, providing examples of how animals as diverse as ants and elephants mourn their dead, and advocates for increased attention to animal emotions.
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.
ISBN:
0226436942
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
ANIMALS Life Behavior Kin | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.