| Description |
193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : on grief and love -- Keening for Carson the cat -- A dog's best friend -- Mourning on the farm -- Why bunnies get depressed -- Elephant bones -- Do monkeys mourn? -- Chimpanzees, cruel to be kind -- Bird love -- Sea of emotion : dolphins, whales, and turtles -- No boundaries : cross-species grief -- Animal suicide? -- Ape grief -- On bison death in Yellowstone and obituaries of animals -- Writing grief -- The prehistory of grief. |
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| Summary |
An anthropologist proves that animals really do experience emotions, describing through a number of specific cases how elephants, housecats and baboons exhibited signs of grieving upon experiencing a loss of a mate, sibling or child. |
| Subject |
Grief in animals.
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Animals, Domestic -- psychology.
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Animals, Wild -- psychology.
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Grief.
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Behavior, Animal.
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| Added Title |
Elephant Research Foundation Library.
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Jeheskel (Hezy) Shoshani Library Endowed Collection.
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| Standard No. |
809978012 841479192 849496735 855836981 856565140 860505368 |
| ISBN |
9780226436944 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0226436942 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780226043722 (e-book) |
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022604372X |
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9780226043722 |
| UPC # |
40022156622 |
| OCLC # |
839672984 |
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