How Animals Grieve (30 page)

Hogg, Charles,
89

Holland, Jennifer,
109–10

Holloman Aerospace Medical Center (NM),
77

Holocaust,
160

Homer,
90–91

Homo sapiens
.
See
human beings

Honey Girl (sea turtle),
102
,
103
,
105
,
164

hormones,
72–74

horses and ponies: awareness of companions’ burial sites,
32–33
,
34–35
; cross-species grief,
111–12
; as goat companions,
36–37
; grief-related behavior,
35
,
165
; leaving body for viewing,
36
; protective circle,
33–34

Hoskinson, Connie,
25–27

Hoskinson, George,
25

House Rabbit Society (HRS),
45–47

Hugh (chimpanzee),
127

Hugo (chimpanzee),
126–27
,
129

human beings: Canada goose attached to,
91–92
; caring for ill companions,
151–52
; compassionate awareness needed,
123–24
; as competition for female owl monkeys,
76
; depression,
47–50
; expectations of other creatures,
3
,
5
,
104–5
; fascination with ape behavior,
86–87
; gathering to honor the dead,
167–68
; guilt,
150
; ketones released in death,
29
; life-within-death concept,
140–41
; mutual attunement with dogs,
24–25
; mutual gaze and social smile,
66
; number,
155
; rarity of monogamy,
89–90
; as storytellers,
147–48
; uniqueness prized,
7
; variability among,
86–87
.
See also
art; ethical treatment; grief (human); love; prehistory; rituals

humpback whales,
100

Huneck, Stephen,
140

Inner World of Farm Animals, The
(Hatkoff),
38–39

insects: ants,
1–2
; fireflies,
141

In the Company of Crows and Ravens
(Marzluff and Angell),
93–94

In the Shadow of Man
(Goodall),
81
,
125–26

intuition, questions about,
14
,
28
,
34

Iowa City Press-Citizen
, obituary,
143

Iraq War, zoo animals,
140

Israel, earliest known intentional burials,
155–56
,
157

Japan: dolphins slaughtered,
120–21
; Hachiko’s memorial,
21–22
; macaques studied,
67–68
; Peace Memorial,
160

Jaytee (dog),
28

Jenny (elephant),
61

Jeremy (rabbit),
41–42
,
43

Jezebel (goat),
111–12

Jilly (rabbit),
41–42
,
43

Jim (author’s friend),
151–52

Jimato (chimpanzee),
81
,
82

Jire (chimpanzee),
81–83

Joey (rabbit),
45–47

joy
(animal): awareness of,
166–67
; of elephant at dog’s recovery,
109
; of elephant reunion,
53–54
; of goat reunion,
3
; vocalizations of,
3
,
54

Justis, David,
42
,
112–13

Kalema (chimpanzee),
82

Kaley (cat),
19–20

Karmelek, Mary,
118

Kathy (dolphin),
120
,
121
,
122

Kayak Morning
(Rosenblatt),
7
,
149

Kenna, Kathleen,
18

Kenya.
See
Amboseli; Samburu National Reserve

Kessler, Brad,
3
,
5

ketones,
29

Kibale National Park (Uganda),
79–80

Klinkenborg, Verlyn,
104

Knut (polar bear),
112
,
141

Kohl (mulard duck),
39–40
,
165

Kohout, Melissa,
111

Koola (gorilla),
130

Kraines, Jeane,
5–6

Krulwich, Robert,
1

Kuma (dog),
18

Lakota Sioux,
93

Last Walk, The
(Pierce),
113

leaving body for viewing: apes in captivity,
129–31
,
132–33
; chimpanzees,
84–86
; concept,
36
; ducks,
40
; elephants,
54–56
; goats,
37–38
; horses,
36
; rabbits,
45
,
47
.
See also
corpse-carrying behavior

Lefty (rabbit),
45

lemmings, suicide myth,
119–20

Lewis, C. S.,
146–47
,
148–49
,
150

literature: life-within-death theme,
140–41
; memoirs of grief,
7
,
145–52
; turtle’s view,
104
.
See also
art

Lorenz, Konrad,
88

Lott, Dale F.,
138

Loulis (chimpanzee),
142

love: definitions and hypotheses,
8–9
,
167
; grief born from,
21
,
31
,
40
,
89
,
161–62
,
165–66
; varieties of,
9–10

loved ones: ashes of,
7
; bones of,
56–59
; irreplaceability of,
14–15
; memory of,
22
.
See also
emotional lives; mother-child ties; sibling ties

Lucie (dog),
111

Lucy (
Australopithecus afarensis
),
158

Lucy (rabbit),
42–44
,
45

macaques.
See
monkeys

Macho (chimpanzee),
84

Madison (cat),
111

Majic (rabbit),
45–47

Making Toast
(Rosenblatt),
149

Malena (stork),
88–89
,
90
,
92

Marcella, Kenneth L.,
34–35
,
36

March of the Penguins
(film),
89

marine mammals.
See
dolphins; seals; whales

Marine Mammal Science
(journal),
99
,
100–101

Markou, Athina,
47–48
,
49
,
50

Marzluff, John M.: on bison,
137–38
; on corvids,
93–96

Mason, Martha,
139–40

Mason, William,
75

Maui (elephant),
54–55

Maxwell (cat),
17–18

Maya (elephant),
54
,
55–56

McCall Smith, Alexander,
22

McComb, Karen,
58–59

McConnell, Patricia,
22

memoirs.
See under
literature

memorials: for family cats and dogs,
21–22
,
112–14
; for Knut,
112
,
141
; for tragic human disasters,
159–62
.
See also
rituals

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Berlin),
160

memory,
22
,
56–57
,
148

Mendoza, Sally,
75

mental
health, self-harm and,
122–23
.
See also
depression; stress responses

Miami Seaquarium,
121

Michael (cat),
114

Mickey (dog),
23–24
,
27

Mimbo (gorilla),
132

Mind of the Raven
(Heinrich),
92

Modern Dog
(magazine),
13
,
23
,
27

monitor lizards,
64

monkeys: hunted and eaten by chimpanzees,
80
,
85
; maternal corpse-carrying behavior,
67–69
; mothers’ care for infants,
66–67
; pair-bonded types,
75–76
; response to maternal death,
69–70
; “separation experiments” on (rhesus),
15–16
; sick infants among,
70–71
; stress responses,
72–73
,
74
; variable responses to death,
64–65
.
See also
baboons

monogamy,
89–91

moose,
138–39

Moremi Game Reserve (Botswana),
71–72
,
164

Moss, Cynthia: on elephants’ bones,
57–59
,
95
; on elephants’ grief,
2
; on elephants’ relationships,
53
; on near-burial of carcass,
59–60
; referenced,
8

mother-child ties: American bison,
137
,
138
; changes in aging,
168–69
; chimpanzees,
80–83
; dog’s intuition and,
28
; dolphins,
97–99
; elephants,
55
; gaze and facial expressions,
66–67
; goats,
3
; gorilla mother’s death and,
129–30
; horses,
35
.
See also
corpse-carrying behavior

Mrithi (gorilla),
132

Myrtle (goat),
36–38

Mzee (tortoise),
110–11

National Public Radio (NPR),
1
,
17
,
166

National Zoological Park (Washington, DC),
78
,
79
,
104–5

Native Americans,
93–94

Nature
(magazine),
123

Nature of Grief, The
(Archer),
49–50
,
146
,
163

navy, sonar,
101
,
122

Neandertals,
157–58

Neely, Michelle,
42–45

Nesting Season, The
(Heinrich),
89

neurobiology of depression,
47–50

New England Journal of Medicine
,
29

New Mexico, Holloman Aerospace Medical Center,
77

New Scientist
(journal),
101

Newton-Fisher, Nicholas,
123

New York, Woodstock Animal Sanctuary,
38

New York City, 9/11 and memorials,
151
,
160
,
161–62

New York Times
: on bison death,
136
; on Knut,
112
; obituaries,
139
; on Thaxter’s story,
6–7

New Zealand, Orca Research Trust,
101

Nick (chimpanzee),
82

Niles (cat),
17

9/11 attacks,
151
,
160
,
161–62

Nix, Laura,
18–19

Nohon, Gregoire,
84

Non omnis amor
(I shall not wholly die),
22

NPR (National Public Radio),
1
,
17
,
166

null hypothesis,
65–70

Oates, Joyce Carol,
145
,
149–50

O’Barry, Richard,
120–21
,
122

obituaries: animal,
141–44
; bones as,
139
; function,
144
; human,
139–41
.
See also
elephants: bones caressed by

Ody (dog),
113

Okavango baboons (Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana),
71–72
,
164

Oklahoma City bombing memorial,
160

O’Leary, Ruth,
91–92

oleic acid,
1–2

On
the Origin of Species
(Darwin),
117

orangutans,
78–79

Orca Research Trust (New Zealand),
101

Oreo (rabbit),
41

Oscar (cat),
29

Owen (hippo),
110–11

owl monkeys,
75–76