How animals grieve / Barbara J. King.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: King, Barbara J., 1956-
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Grief in animals.
Animal behavior.
Grief.
Physical Description:193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.