Read How Animals Grieve Online
Authors: Barbara J. King
Hogg, Charles,
89
Holland, Jennifer,
109–10
Holloman Aerospace Medical Center (NM),
77
Holocaust,
160
Homer,
90–91
Homo sapiens
.
See
human beings
Honey Girl (sea turtle),
102
,
103
,
105
,
164
hormones,
72–74
horses and ponies: awareness of companions’ burial sites,
32–33
,
34–35
; cross-species grief,
111–12
; as goat companions,
36–37
; grief-related behavior,
35
,
165
; leaving body for viewing,
36
; protective circle,
33–34
Hoskinson, Connie,
25–27
Hoskinson, George,
25
House Rabbit Society (HRS),
45–47
Hugh (chimpanzee),
127
human beings: Canada goose attached to,
91–92
; caring for ill companions,
151–52
; compassionate awareness needed,
123–24
; as competition for female owl monkeys,
76
; depression,
47–50
; expectations of other creatures,
3
,
5
,
104–5
; fascination with ape behavior,
86–87
; gathering to honor the dead,
167–68
; guilt,
150
; ketones released in death,
29
; life-within-death concept,
140–41
; mutual attunement with dogs,
24–25
; mutual gaze and social smile,
66
; number,
155
; rarity of monogamy,
89–90
; as storytellers,
147–48
; uniqueness prized,
7
; variability among,
86–87
.
See also
art; ethical treatment; grief (human); love; prehistory; rituals
humpback whales,
100
Huneck, Stephen,
140
Inner World of Farm Animals, The
(Hatkoff),
38–39
insects: ants,
1–2
; fireflies,
141
In the Company of Crows and Ravens
(Marzluff and Angell),
93–94
In the Shadow of Man
(Goodall),
81
,
125–26
intuition, questions about,
14
,
28
,
34
Iowa City Press-Citizen
, obituary,
143
Iraq War, zoo animals,
140
Israel, earliest known intentional burials,
155–56
,
157
Japan: dolphins slaughtered,
120–21
; Hachiko’s memorial,
21–22
; macaques studied,
67–68
; Peace Memorial,
160
Jaytee (dog),
28
Jenny (elephant),
61
Jezebel (goat),
111–12
Jim (author’s friend),
151–52
Jire (chimpanzee),
81–83
Joey (rabbit),
45–47
joy
(animal): awareness of,
166–67
; of elephant at dog’s recovery,
109
; of elephant reunion,
53–54
; of goat reunion,
3
; vocalizations of,
3
,
54
Kalema (chimpanzee),
82
Kaley (cat),
19–20
Karmelek, Mary,
118
Kayak Morning
(Rosenblatt),
7
,
149
Kenna, Kathleen,
18
Kenya.
See
Amboseli; Samburu National Reserve
ketones,
29
Kibale National Park (Uganda),
79–80
Klinkenborg, Verlyn,
104
Kohout, Melissa,
111
Koola (gorilla),
130
Kraines, Jeane,
5–6
Krulwich, Robert,
1
Kuma (dog),
18
Lakota Sioux,
93
Last Walk, The
(Pierce),
113
leaving body for viewing: apes in captivity,
129–31
,
132–33
; chimpanzees,
84–86
; concept,
36
; ducks,
40
; elephants,
54–56
; goats,
37–38
; horses,
36
; rabbits,
45
,
47
.
See also
corpse-carrying behavior
Lefty (rabbit),
45
lemmings, suicide myth,
119–20
Lewis, C. S.,
146–47
,
148–49
,
150
literature: life-within-death theme,
140–41
; memoirs of grief,
7
,
145–52
; turtle’s view,
104
.
See also
art
Lorenz, Konrad,
88
Lott, Dale F.,
138
Loulis (chimpanzee),
142
love: definitions and hypotheses,
8–9
,
167
; grief born from,
21
,
31
,
40
,
89
,
161–62
,
165–66
; varieties of,
9–10
loved ones: ashes of,
7
; bones of,
56–59
; irreplaceability of,
14–15
; memory of,
22
.
See also
emotional lives; mother-child ties; sibling ties
Lucie (dog),
111
Lucy (
Australopithecus afarensis
),
158
macaques.
See
monkeys
Macho (chimpanzee),
84
Madison (cat),
111
Majic (rabbit),
45–47
Making Toast
(Rosenblatt),
149
March of the Penguins
(film),
89
marine mammals.
See
dolphins; seals; whales
Marine Mammal Science
(journal),
99
,
100–101
Marzluff, John M.: on bison,
137–38
; on corvids,
93–96
Mason, Martha,
139–40
Mason, William,
75
Maui (elephant),
54–55
Maxwell (cat),
17–18
McCall Smith, Alexander,
22
McComb, Karen,
58–59
McConnell, Patricia,
22
memoirs.
See under
literature
memorials: for family cats and dogs,
21–22
,
112–14
; for Knut,
112
,
141
; for tragic human disasters,
159–62
.
See also
rituals
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Berlin),
160
Mendoza, Sally,
75
mental
health, self-harm and,
122–23
.
See also
depression; stress responses
Miami Seaquarium,
121
Michael (cat),
114
Mimbo (gorilla),
132
Mind of the Raven
(Heinrich),
92
monitor lizards,
64
monkeys: hunted and eaten by chimpanzees,
80
,
85
; maternal corpse-carrying behavior,
67–69
; mothers’ care for infants,
66–67
; pair-bonded types,
75–76
; response to maternal death,
69–70
; “separation experiments” on (rhesus),
15–16
; sick infants among,
70–71
; stress responses,
72–73
,
74
; variable responses to death,
64–65
.
See also
baboons
monogamy,
89–91
moose,
138–39
Moremi Game Reserve (Botswana),
71–72
,
164
Moss, Cynthia: on elephants’ bones,
57–59
,
95
; on elephants’ grief,
2
; on elephants’ relationships,
53
; on near-burial of carcass,
59–60
; referenced,
8
mother-child ties: American bison,
137
,
138
; changes in aging,
168–69
; chimpanzees,
80–83
; dog’s intuition and,
28
; dolphins,
97–99
; elephants,
55
; gaze and facial expressions,
66–67
; goats,
3
; gorilla mother’s death and,
129–30
; horses,
35
.
See also
corpse-carrying behavior
Mrithi (gorilla),
132
Myrtle (goat),
36–38
Mzee (tortoise),
110–11
National Public Radio (NPR),
1
,
17
,
166
National Zoological Park (Washington, DC),
78
,
79
,
104–5
Native Americans,
93–94
Nature
(magazine),
123
Nature of Grief, The
(Archer),
49–50
,
146
,
163
Neandertals,
157–58
Neely, Michelle,
42–45
Nesting Season, The
(Heinrich),
89
neurobiology of depression,
47–50
New England Journal of Medicine
,
29
New Mexico, Holloman Aerospace Medical Center,
77
New Scientist
(journal),
101
Newton-Fisher, Nicholas,
123
New York, Woodstock Animal Sanctuary,
38
New York City, 9/11 and memorials,
151
,
160
,
161–62
New York Times
: on bison death,
136
; on Knut,
112
; obituaries,
139
; on Thaxter’s story,
6–7
New Zealand, Orca Research Trust,
101
Nick (chimpanzee),
82
Niles (cat),
17
Nix, Laura,
18–19
Nohon, Gregoire,
84
Non omnis amor
(I shall not wholly die),
22
NPR (National Public Radio),
1
,
17
,
166
null hypothesis,
65–70
obituaries: animal,
141–44
; bones as,
139
; function,
144
; human,
139–41
.
See also
elephants: bones caressed by
Ody (dog),
113
Okavango baboons (Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana),
71–72
,
164
Oklahoma City bombing memorial,
160
O’Leary, Ruth,
91–92
oleic acid,
1–2
On
the Origin of Species
(Darwin),
117
orangutans,
78–79
Orca Research Trust (New Zealand),
101
Oreo (rabbit),
41
Oscar (cat),
29
Owen (hippo),
110–11
owl monkeys,
75–76