Jennifer Vonks: If you assume animals are like humans, you miss the ways that they're not like humans. Susanna Munzo: You're missing out on a whole bunch of animal weirdness when it comes to death. Jessica Pierce: I think it's maybe useful for all three of them to disagree a little here or to have different approaches to animals.
A dog on its owner’s grave. A killer whale carrying around its dead calf. A goose that isolates when its mate dies. These behaviors in animals may look like human mourning, but should scientists call them "grief?"
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