Title:
How animals grieve / Barbara J. King.
ISBN:
9780226436944
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.
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.
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.
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn839672984
Availability:
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