I’ve seen a short version of this video on twitter and it was labeled dog buries it’s owner in Turkey by placing a rock on the debris. The long version actually shows the dog is burying it’s pup.

Here comes another example of vigil during the death of a conspecific in Asian elephants. Nachiketha Sharma (ನಚಿಕೇತ ಶರ್ಮಾ) 🐘 EvoThanCollective

Paper alert: The recognition of death and grief: An evolutionary perspective. Its relations with the most ancient rituals and burials of humanity by Éric Crubézy sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #comparativethanatology #mortuaryrituals

Do Animals Know That They Will Die? An existential mystery. The Atlantic theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Thanks Aeon Magazine for picking up my animated video created by working with TED Talks education division aeon.co/videos/were-no… #grief #animalgrief #animals #nature #animation

We’re not the only animals that appear to grieve. What are the implications? – aeon.co/videos/were-no… via Aeon Magazine

Such a beautiful article on a fascinating topic. I am honored that our research and Moni the chimpanzee are included in it!

Reflecting on the highlights of 2024, I'm reminded that every remarkable journey starts with small steps. Grateful to have witnessed and been part of the EvoThanCollective Collective, a concept initiated by Nachiketha Sharma (ನಚಿಕೇತ ಶರ್ಮಾ) 🐘 and André Gonçalves. 1/2 #comparativethanatology

Saying goodbye is the painful way of solving a problem... The silence is just another word for the pain ... It takes just a few seconds to say hello, but it takes forever to say goodbye ...

Do Animals Understand Death? The Latest Science Might Surprise You gizmodo.com/do-animals-und…

Natalia, a chimpanzee captive in the Valencia BIOPARC zoo in Spain, carried her dead baby around for 7 months. 😔💔 Grief is not exclusive to human beings, and the grief of a non-human mother can be just as profound. All animals have feelings.

Preprint alert: C. elegans behavior, fitness, and lifespan, are modulated by AWB/ASH-1 dependent death perception by Hernandez-Lima et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

popsci.com/environment/an…

.EvoThanCollective is well-represented in this Popular Science piece on animals' varied responses to death-- André Gonçalves, Alecia Carter, and, me too, including my "grief is not just a human thing" pull quote popsci.com/environment/an… #animals #death #grief

Paper alert: Neurobiological traces of grief: Examining the impact of offspring loss after birth on rat mothers’ brain and stress-coping behavior in the first week postpartum by Demarchi et al sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #animalgrief #comparativethanatology

She knew the right thing to do for this little family was to let them say their last goodbyes, too, and know why their little sister wasn’t around anymore. These pets deserve closure too. 😭❤️

Paper alert: Monsó, S., & Danón, L. (2024). Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition Link: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

We are thrilled to share our latest findings demonstrating that mice exhibit reviving-like prosocial behavior toward unconscious or dead companions. Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Paper alert: Rescuing responses in mice towards unresponsive/dead conspecifics science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #comparativethanatology #epimeleticbehavior

Heartbreaking moment a dog buries her stillborn pup 😭❤️