Do animals grieve for their dead? Do they have an awareness of what death is? Researchers have been trying to find ...

Death is a part of life, but some animals are more in tune with loss and grief than others. Horses are one of those species ...

Humans aren’t the only species that mourn their dead. Mother chimpanzees have been observed carrying their dead babies for months, continuing to groom them during this time. Giraffes, crows, and ...

In an earlier blog post, I staged a debate between an advocate claiming that nonhuman animals have emotions and a skeptic arguing that there are simpler explanations of animal behavior. I did not ...

Over the past couple of years I've written about various aspects of the rich and complex emotional lives of animals, including essays on grief and mourning. I began one of those essays by writing, ...

Have you ever wondered whether your dog or cat experiences feelings of joy and sadness? How about whether or not wild animals love and grieve? Barbara J. King, an emerita professor of anthropology at ...

Is it her grief ... or ours? As she carried her dead calf for the ninth straight day, Tahlequah the mother orca whale has captured the world’s attention. People have responded to her plight with poems ...

We have all heard animals referred to as “stupid,” or “live stock.” Neither of these terms implies that they are feeling, loving creatures. Over the years of working with animals, I have seen numerous ...