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Authors: Barbara J. King
oxen,
14–15
Pastorius, Channah,
18
Peace Memorial (Japan),
160
Peaches (pony),
111–12
Peanut (owl monkey),
75–76
penguins,
89
Petra (swan),
89
Pierce, Jessica,
113
Pigface (soft-shelled turtle),
105
pigs,
39
pilot whales,
101
Pittsburgh Zoo,
131–32
Pollux (ox),
14–15
ponies.
See
horses and ponies
Pops (horse),
35
positive association,
109–11
.
See also
cross-species friendship
post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD),
123
Poulsen, Else,
116
prairie voles,
73–74
prehistory: bison’s importance,
136
; burial ceremonies,
153–54
,
155
; creative expression,
136
,
153
,
156–58
; death practice changes,
156–57
; earliest known intentional burials,
155–56
; elephants,
53
; lacunae in knowledge about,
158–59
primates: humans’ fascination with,
86–87
; maternal corpse-carrying behavior,
67–69
; mothers’ care for infants,
66–67
; pair-bonded types,
74–76
; response to maternal death,
69–70
.
See also
baboons; chimpanzees; emotional lives; great apes; human beings; monkeys
Psihoyos, Louis,
120–21
PTSD (post-traumatic stress syndrome),
123
Qafzeh burials (Israel),
155–56
,
157
rabbits: author’s,
41
; grief-related behavior,
43–44
,
45
,
47
,
165
; humans’ interaction with,
41
,
42
,
46
; as “iceberg” animals,
51
; interactions among,
42–43
; new companions for,
44
,
47
,
50
Radioactive Wolves
(film),
138
Ramar (gorilla),
130
red ocher,
155–57
relationships.
See
loved ones;
and specific animals
Renard, Jules,
14–15
reptiles: hamster-snake bond,
110
; monitor lizards,
64
.
See also
turtles and tortoises
rescue organizations and sanctuaries: cross-species friendships,
62
,
106–9
,
110–11
; elephants,
52–60
,
61–63
; farm animals,
38–40
,
167
; great apes,
78
; pair-bonded owl monkeys,
75–76
; rabbits,
45–47
.
See also specific parks and reserves
Rising, The
(album),
151
Ritter, Fabian,
99
rituals: of animal sacrifice,
39
; cat memorialized in,
112–13
; dead cut off from the living by,
148–49
; dog honored in,
21–22
; earliest known
intentional
burials,
155–56
; human grief expressed in,
7
; importance of funerals as,
167–68
; Knut memorialized in,
112
,
141
; sewn beads in double-child burial as evidence of,
153–54
; wider scale of,
160–62
.
See also
art; memorials; obituaries
Rix (chimpanzee),
126–28
,
129
,
133
Rose, Anthony,
102
Rosie (chimpanzee),
128–29
Rosing, Norbert,
109–10
rough-toothed dolphins,
99
Russia, Sunghir settlement,
153–54
,
155
Rusty (cat),
18–19
Rwanda, Genocide Memorial Center,
160
Sage (elephant),
55–56
Samburu National Reserve (Kenya): death of matriarch,
54–56
,
164
; elephants,
52–53
sanctuaries.
See
rescue organizations and sanctuaries
Saunders, Frances Stonor,
149
Schomburg, Karen,
111
schools, classroom bunnies at,
41
,
46
Scientific American
(magazine),
118
scientific methods: hormonal measurements,
72–74
; radio-tracking data (GPS),
53–56
; tape recordings,
126
; videotapes and film,
3
,
9
,
28
,
58
,
75
,
79–80
,
123
,
128
.
See also
animal studies
Scooter (cat),
18
Scotland: chimps at safari park in,
128–30
; “dog suicide bridge” near Dumbarton,
120
Scout (cat),
19
seals,
93
“separation experiments,”
15–16
September 11, 2001, attacks,
151
,
160
,
161–62
sexual arousal,
126–27
Seyfarth, Robert M.,
70–71
Sheldrake, Rupert,
28
sibling ties: cats,
11–15
,
16–18
,
19–20
; territoriality despite,
18–19
Sierra (baboon),
73
Silver (horse),
34
Simpson, Vic,
122
Sissy (elephant),
61–63
Skhul burials (Israel),
155–56
,
157
Smart, Pat,
28
Smiling Bears
(Poulsen),
116
snake-hamster bond,
110
soft-shelled turtles,
105
Sorenson, John,
85
South Africa, Blombos Cave,
156–57
space travel, chimpanzees,
77–78
Spain, Sima people and “Pit of the Bones” in,
158
spay-neuter programs,
19
sperm whales,
100–101
Springsteen, Bruce,
151
Sri Lanka, toque macaques,
64–65
Stapleton, Mary,
32–33
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
,
144
Storm Warning (horse),
32–33
,
34
stotting,
118
strandings of marine mammals,
98
,
100–101
,
121–22
stress responses: biological role,
50–51
; hormonal measurements to determine,
72–74
; post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) and,
123
; to separation of pair-bonded couples,
73–76
.
See also
depression
Styron, William,
49
Sugiyama, Yukimaru,
67–68
suicide
(animal): alleged single dolphin,
120
; bear at bile farm and,
115
,
116–17
; classic myth of lemmings,
119–20
; dolphin strandings as,
121–22
; questions about,
117–18
,
120
,
165
; self-harm distinguished from,
122–23
suicide (human),
140
Sullivan, Deirdre,
167–68
Sunghir (Paleolithic settlement),
153–54
,
155
Suomi, Stephen J.,
16
Susie (dog),
60
swans,
89–90
Tai Forest chimpanzees (Cote d’Ivoire),
83–86
,
127
,
128
,
164
tail-suspension test,
73–74
Tanzania.
See
Gombe
Tarra (elephant),
107
; response to dog companion’s death,
106–9
,
165
; response to elephant’s death,
61
,
62
Tarzan (chimpanzee),
84–85
,
86
,
128
,
164
Tasmania, sperm whales beached on coast,
100
Tesla (gelada monkey),
69–70
Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network,
98
Thaxter, Wendy,
6–7
Thoroughbred Times
(magazine),
34–35
Through a Window
(Goodall),
81
Times
(London),
143
Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile
(Klinkenborg),
104
Tina (chimpanzee),
84–86
,
128
,
129
,
164
Tina (elephant),
60–63
Tinker Belle (TB, goose),
91–92
Tomasello, Michael,
24–25
Tony (horse),
35
Tufani (gorilla),
132
Tumilson, Jon,
30–31
Tumpe (elephant),
60
Turkey, man-and-lamb burial at Çatalhöyük,
156
turtles and tortoises: author’s rescue and reconsideration of,
102–3
,
104
; cross-species friendship,
110–11
; playfulness and longevity,
105
; sea turtles and mourning behavior,
101–2
,
103
,
105
Tussock (gelada monkey),
69–70
UDCA (ursodeoxycholic acid),
116
Uganda, Kibale National Park,
79–80
United Arab Emirates, prehistoric elephants,
53
University of Oklahoma,
142
University of Washington,
94
Unlikely Friendships
(Holland),
62
,
109–10
ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA),
116
ursodiol,
116
US military sonar,
101
Uzbekistan, Neandertal burial site,
158
Vene (chimpanzee),
81
Vermont, Dog Chapel,
140
Visser, Ingrid,
101
vocalizations (general): baboons to live infant,
71
; corvids,
94–95
; growls of objection,
16
;
wraaah
calls (chimpanzee),
127–28
vocalizations of grief: cats,
11
,
13
,
17
,
18
,
19
; at chimpanzee’s sudden death,
126–28
; cows,
38
; dolphins,
97
;
elephants,
57
,
62
; goat,
37
; gorillas,
130–32
; horse,
35