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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of the reason we love dogs so much is because of their emotional capacity, but make no mistake — cats are sentient beings as ...

When an elephant calf falls or dies, the matriarch (the female head of the group) and the entire herd form a protective circle around it, gently touching it with their trunk. Or it was noticed in many ...

Humans are not the only creatures that experience grief. Elephants, orcas, primates, dogs, and cats have all shown the ...

I’ve been thinking about animals and death because Tahlequah, that mother orca, lost another calf this month. The baby whale was first spotted by whale watchers on Dec. 20, 2024. Then, on Jan. 1, 2025 ...

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It’s a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants, for ...

In 2018, field researchers in Uganda came across an unusual sight: a female chimpanzee carried an infant that she had recently given birth to, and which was affected by albinism, an extremely uncommon ...

Zookeepers need greater support to cope with grief when the animals they look after die, according to new research. Zoo employees and volunteers across the United States were surveyed about their ...

Pet loss represents a profound emotional challenge, as companion animals often occupy roles akin to family members. The grief experienced following the death of a pet encompasses a spectrum of ...