How animals grieve

Prologue: on grief and love . . 1

1. Keening for carson the cat . . 11 
2. A dog's best friend . . 21
3. Mourning on the farm . . 32 
4. Why bunnies get depressed . . 41
5. Elephant bones . . 52 
6. Do monkeys mourn? . . 64 
7. Chimpanzees: cruel to be kind . . 77 
8. Bird love . . 88 
9. Sea of emotion: dolphins, whales, and turtles . . 97 
10. No boundaries: cross-species grief . . 106 
11. Animal suicide? . . 115 
12. Ape grief . . 125 
13. On bison death in yellowstone and obituaries of animals . . 134 
14. Writing grief . . 145 
15. The prehistory of grief . . 153 

Afterword . . 163 
Acknowledgments . . 171 
Readings and visual resources . . 173 
Index . . 181