How Animals Grieve

by Barbara J. King

Hardcover, 193 pages, Univ of Chicago Pr, List Price: $25 | purchase

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Questions For Barbara J. King, Author Of 'How Animals Grieve'

May 27, 2013 • Do animals grieve? A new book says yes: While there's little clinical research on animal grief, observation suggests that many animals, including ducks, cats, rabbits, horses and more, are capable of loving other animals, and grieving their loss.

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When Humans Mourn: The Mozart Requiem And A Matter Of Scale

April 25, 2013 • A performance of Mozart's Requiem has commentator Barbara J. King thinking about the ways humans grieve. Of all species on Earth, we alone mourn across time and space for people we have never met.

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