CRASH Japan - Love On Japan 2011 - Christian Relief Assistance Support & Hope. Do Animals Grieve? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images I'm on research leave from my college this year in order to write a book that explores one central question: Do non-human animals grieve? My answer is yes, they do. It's refreshing to answer a scholarly question without equivocation. Most often, I can't do that. When anthropologists reconstruct how prehistoric peoples lived based on their material artifacts, or theorize about how monkeys and apes think about the world based on their behavior, disclaimers of what we can't know often crowd out solid answers. But from a combination of observation, evolutionary logic, reading the peer-reviewed science literature, and talking to insightful animal people, I'm convinced that animals may feel deep grief when another animal dies.
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Send a green star Ms. Sep 12, 05:51 I am pleading with you to please end this abuse and cruelty now. send a green star Mrs. Sep 11, 18:26 More ugly, selfish human behavior. send a green star Ms. Sep 11, 11:07 Unbelievably cruel!... Send a green star Mr. Sep 11, 02:52 send a green star Ms. Sep 10, 19:53 Unimaginable horror for these marine animals. Mr. Mr. - Razoo. $9,431 133 $8131 Raised 104 Donors Mark Horvath Dear Friends, I need your help to continue telling these stories and reaching out into the streets, under the bridges, park benches, shelters and tent cities -- in two months on the road we have been able to see huge results!
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