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How Animals Grieve by Barbara J. King is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is How Animals Grieve about?

From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. Recently, however, things have begun to shift in the other direction, and anthropologist Barbara J. King is at the forefront of that movement, arguing strenuously that we can—and should —attend to animal emotions. With How Animals Grieve , she draws our attention to the specific case of grief, and relates story after story—from fieldsites, farms, homes, and more—of animals mourning lost companions, mates, or friends. King tells of elephants surrounding their matriarch as she weakens and dies, and, in the following days, attending to her corpse as if holding a vigil. A housecat loses her sister, from whom she's never before been parted, and spends weeks pacing the apartment, wailing plaintively. A baboon loses her daughter to a predator and sinks into grief. In each case, King uses her anthropological training to interpret and try to explain what we see—to help us understand this animal grief properly, as something neith

Who reads How Animals Grieve?

Author

Barbara J. King

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226043722

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Nature, Pets

Rating

3.64 / 5 (241 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14