How Animals Mourn

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Photo: Justin Ennis, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license.When a chimpanzee mother carries her dead baby for weeks, is she grieving her loss? When elephants tenderly caress the bones and tusks of deceased family members, are they mourning? What about cats and dogs that become listless and refuse to eat after a companion dies?I take a look at the evidence for grief in animals in my latest article for Brain Decoder: How Animals Mourn.

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