Do Animals Grieve? What the Research Says

 

We had a lot of response from people touched by last month's cartoon about animals deeply grieving each other. This month, we look at what researchers have discovered about grief among animals. As one researcher says, "We're far from the only animals aware of mortality."

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Susan MacLeod

Susan MacLeod is a Nova Scotian artist writing and drawing about health care issues. Her humorous book, Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care, follows her nine-year journey shepherding her mother through a callous long-term care system. This inspired her interest in end-of-life and grief issues.

https://www.susanmacleod.ca/
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Do Animals Grieve?