How Animals Grieve (31 page)

oxen,
14–15

Pansy (chimpanzee),
128–29
,
165

Pastorius, Channah,
18

Peace Memorial (Japan),
160

Peaches (pony),
111–12

Peanut (owl monkey),
75–76

penguins,
89

Petra (swan),
89

Pierce, Jessica,
113

Piercy (dog),
23–24
,
27

Pigface (soft-shelled turtle),
105

pigs,
39

pilot whales,
101

Pittsburgh Zoo,
131–32

polar bears,
109–10
,
112
,
141

Pollux (ox),
14–15

ponies.
See
horses and ponies

Pops (horse),
35

positive association,
109–11
.
See also
cross-species friendship

post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD),
123

Potts, Annie,
6
,
115

Poulsen, Else,
116

prairie voles,
73–74

prehistory: bison’s importance,
136
; burial ceremonies,
153–54
,
155
; creative expression,
136
,
153
,
156–58
; death practice changes,
156–57
; earliest known intentional burials,
155–56
; elephants,
53
; lacunae in knowledge about,
158–59

primates: humans’ fascination with,
86–87
; maternal corpse-carrying behavior,
67–69
; mothers’ care for infants,
66–67
; pair-bonded types,
74–76
; response to maternal death,
69–70
.
See also
baboons; chimpanzees; emotional lives; great apes; human beings; monkeys

Psihoyos, Louis,
120–21

PTSD (post-traumatic stress syndrome),
123

Qafzeh burials (Israel),
155–56
,
157

rabbits: author’s,
41
; grief-related behavior,
43–44
,
45
,
47
,
165
; humans’ interaction with,
41
,
42
,
46
; as “iceberg” animals,
51
; interactions among,
42–43
; new companions for,
44
,
47
,
50

Radioactive Wolves
(film),
138

Ramar (gorilla),
130

ravens,
92–93
,
96

red ocher,
155–57

relationships.
See
loved ones;
and specific animals

Renard, Jules,
14–15

reptiles: hamster-snake bond,
110
; monitor lizards,
64
.
See also
turtles and tortoises

rescue organizations and sanctuaries: cross-species friendships,
62
,
106–9
,
110–11
; elephants,
52–60
,
61–63
; farm animals,
38–40
,
167
; great apes,
78
; pair-bonded owl monkeys,
75–76
; rabbits,
45–47
.
See also specific parks and reserves

rhesus macaques,
15
,
66
,
67

Rising, The
(album),
151

Ritter, Fabian,
99

rituals: of animal sacrifice,
39
; cat memorialized in,
112–13
; dead cut off from the living by,
148–49
; dog honored in,
21–22
; earliest known
intentional
burials,
155–56
; human grief expressed in,
7
; importance of funerals as,
167–68
; Knut memorialized in,
112
,
141
; sewn beads in double-child burial as evidence of,
153–54
; wider scale of,
160–62
.
See also
art; memorials; obituaries

Rix (chimpanzee),
126–28
,
129
,
133

Rodan (stork),
88–89
,
90
,
92

Rose, Anthony,
102

Rosenblatt, Roger,
7
,
149

Rosie (chimpanzee),
128–29

Rosing, Norbert,
109–10

rough-toothed dolphins,
99

Russia, Sunghir settlement,
153–54
,
155

Rusty (cat),
18–19

Rwanda, Genocide Memorial Center,
160

Sage (elephant),
55–56

Samburu National Reserve (Kenya): death of matriarch,
54–56
,
164
; elephants,
52–53

sanctuaries.
See
rescue organizations and sanctuaries

Saunders, Frances Stonor,
149

Say Her Name
(Goldman),
145
,
150

Schomburg, Karen,
111

schools, classroom bunnies at,
41
,
46

Scientific American
(magazine),
118

scientific methods: hormonal measurements,
72–74
; radio-tracking data (GPS),
53–56
; tape recordings,
126
; videotapes and film,
3
,
9
,
28
,
58
,
75
,
79–80
,
123
,
128
.
See also
animal studies

Scooter (cat),
18

Scotland: chimps at safari park in,
128–30
; “dog suicide bridge” near Dumbarton,
120

Scout (cat),
19

seals,
93

sea turtles,
101–2
,
103
,
105
,
164

“separation experiments,”
15–16

September 11, 2001, attacks,
151
,
160
,
161–62

sexual arousal,
126–27

Seyfarth, Robert M.,
70–71

Sheldrake, Rupert,
28

sibling ties: cats,
11–15
,
16–18
,
19–20
; territoriality despite,
18–19

Sierra (baboon),
73

Silver (horse),
34

Simpson, Vic,
122

Sissy (elephant),
61–63

Skhul burials (Israel),
155–56
,
157

Smart, Pat,
28

Smiling Bears
(Poulsen),
116

snake-hamster bond,
110

soft-shelled turtles,
105

sonar hypothesis,
101
,
122

Sorenson, John,
85

South Africa, Blombos Cave,
156–57

space travel, chimpanzees,
77–78

Spain, Sima people and “Pit of the Bones” in,
158

spay-neuter programs,
19

sperm whales,
100–101

Springsteen, Bruce,
151

Sri Lanka, toque macaques,
64–65

Stapleton, Mary,
32–33

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
,
144

storks,
88–89
,
90
,
92

Storm Warning (horse),
32–33
,
34

stotting,
118

strandings of marine mammals,
98
,
100–101
,
121–22

stress responses: biological role,
50–51
; hormonal measurements to determine,
72–74
; post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) and,
123
; to separation of pair-bonded couples,
73–76
.
See also
depression

Styron, William,
49

Sugiyama, Yukimaru,
67–68

suicide
(animal): alleged single dolphin,
120
; bear at bile farm and,
115
,
116–17
; classic myth of lemmings,
119–20
; dolphin strandings as,
121–22
; questions about,
117–18
,
120
,
165
; self-harm distinguished from,
122–23

suicide (human),
140

Sullivan, Deirdre,
167–68

Sunghir (Paleolithic settlement),
153–54
,
155

Suomi, Stephen J.,
16

Susie (dog),
60

swans,
89–90

Sydney (dog),
25–27
,
26

Sylvia (baboon),
73
,
76
,
164

Tai Forest chimpanzees (Cote d’Ivoire),
83–86
,
127
,
128
,
164

tail-suspension test,
73–74

Tanzania.
See
Gombe

Tarra (elephant),
107
; response to dog companion’s death,
106–9
,
165
; response to elephant’s death,
61
,
62

Tarzan (chimpanzee),
84–85
,
86
,
128
,
164

Tasmania, sperm whales beached on coast,
100

Teleki, Geza,
125–28
,
133

Tesla (gelada monkey),
69–70

Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network,
98

Thaxter, Wendy,
6–7

13.7
blog,
17
,
166

Thoroughbred Times
(magazine),
34–35

Through a Window
(Goodall),
81

Time
(magazine),
22
,
120–21

Times
(London),
143

Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile
(Klinkenborg),
104

Tina (chimpanzee),
84–86
,
128
,
129
,
164

Tina (elephant),
60–63

Tinker Belle (TB, goose),
91–92

Tinky (cat),
112–13
,
141

Tomasello, Michael,
24–25

Tony (horse),
35

toque macaques,
64–65
,
66
,
67

Trixie (rabbit),
45–47
,
50

Tufani (gorilla),
132

Tumilson, Jon,
30–31

Tumpe (elephant),
60

Turkey, man-and-lamb burial at Çatalhöyük,
156

turtles and tortoises: author’s rescue and reconsideration of,
102–3
,
104
; cross-species friendship,
110–11
; playfulness and longevity,
105
; sea turtles and mourning behavior,
101–2
,
103
,
105

Tussock (gelada monkey),
69–70

UDCA (ursodeoxycholic acid),
116

Uganda, Kibale National Park,
79–80

Ulrich, Lynda and Rich,
3
,
4

Ulysse (chimpanzee),
84
,
129

United Arab Emirates, prehistoric elephants,
53

University of Oklahoma,
142

University of Washington,
94

Unlikely Friendships
(Holland),
62
,
109–10

ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA),
116

ursodiol,
116

US military sonar,
101

Uzbekistan, Neandertal burial site,
158

Vene (chimpanzee),
81

Vermont, Dog Chapel,
140

Vincent (rabbit),
42–45
,
50

Visser, Ingrid,
101

vocalizations (general): baboons to live infant,
71
; corvids,
94–95
; growls of objection,
16
;
wraaah
calls (chimpanzee),
127–28

vocalizations of grief: cats,
11
,
13
,
17
,
18
,
19
; at chimpanzee’s sudden death,
126–28
; cows,
38
; dolphins,
97
;
elephants,
57
,
62
; goat,
37
; gorillas,
130–32
; horse,
35