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 ...

A new survey suggests that the grief response to a pet’s death can be as severe as when losing a person ...

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, ...

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

Humans aren’t the only species that mourn their dead. Mother chimpanzees have been observed carrying their dead babies for months, continuing to groom them during this time. Giraffes, crows, and ...

Coconut bonded with her new canine brother and settled into her routine, but her sister Lindsay could still see that her spark was missing. Then Lindsay’s boyfriend entered the picture, and Coconut ...

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 ...

A grieving golden retriever named Murray has captured the hearts of internet viewers after his emotional reaction to gaining two new feline siblings went viral. Murray, 10, had been deeply affected by ...

"There is something primal about making a friend," writes Fatima Bhutto. "We are not far from animals in this regard." ...

Susana Monsó has received funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation. It was a story that pulled at the heartstrings. In 2018, an orca called ...