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Do animals grieve? The way we humans do? I\u2019ve been asking myself this question ever since my husband, Adam, told me the story of how his parents\u2019 dog, Sandy, behaved after the death of his grandfather a few years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe took Sandy to my Pop Pop\u2019s house after the funeral,\u201d Adam said. \u201cShe raced to his armchair and lay next to it. She stayed for hours. Somehow she knew. He was gone<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But how? To find out, I decided to talk to experts and others who have witnessed animals mourning. Like Meva Scarff, a Mysterious Ways <\/em>reader from West Virginia. Meva was stunned by the way the cows<\/a> on her farm seemed to express their grief after the death of her husband, Jim, about a year ago.<\/p>\n

Meva had Jim buried on top of a hill on their 110-acre farm. The cows would constantly graze over the spot, so Meva built a fence around the gravesite to keep them away. Again and again, they found ways to push through the fence, as if to be closer to Jim. Meva couldn\u2019t believe it. \u201cMy husband loved those cows,\u201d she said, \u201cand I guess they loved him too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, some skeptics argue that people anthropomorphize their pets, giving them human qualities and feelings. But these weren\u2019t pets. They were cows. <\/em>Could something deeper be going on?<\/p>\n

I took my questions to Dr. Eric Dougherty. He\u2019s the medical director of Cat Practice, a feline veterinary hospital in New York. According to Dr. Dougherty, animals do <\/em>mourn\u2014for both humans and members of their own species. Interestingly, their grief often mimics the behavior we typically associate with humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnimals, while possessing a different\u2014and in some cases, not fully understood\u2014social structure, have deep emotional connections to one another beyond simple social hierarchy,\u201d he says. \u201cMany of the common signs of grief in cats, for example, consist of changes like becoming withdrawn, depressed, lethargic or even aggressive.\u201d Dr. Dougherty recalls a client whose two cats formed a lifelong bond. Just 48 hours after one of them died, the other unexpectedly passed away. A comparable phenomenon\u2014broken-heart syndrome\u2014has been observed in humans following the death of a loved one.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot explain exactly what each cat experienced in that case,\u201d Dr. Dougherty says. \u201cBut have no doubt, the surviving cat knew something important from her life was lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mysterious Ways <\/em>Editorial Director Edward Grinnan saw something similar happen with Millie<\/a>, his golden retriever. Millie was just a puppy when she met Winky, the dog of Mysterious Ways <\/em>Senior Contributing Editor Amy Wong. The two quickly became inseparable. Winky helped Millie navigate the sidewalks of New York City. In turn, Millie protected Winky from a black bear on the Appalachian Trail. \u201cThe day Winky died, Millie was across town from Winky,\u201d Edward told me. \u201cAt the very hour it happened, Millie let out a soft cry and a deep sigh. Somehow she knew her best friend had died.\u201d<\/p>\n

She knew. <\/em>How? I turned to other species in the animal kingdom for clues, starting with elephants. Elephant graveyards <\/em>may seem like something out of The Lion King, <\/em>but elephants do indeed come together to mourn when they lose a member of their herd. Tony Verhulst, founder of the sanctuary Elephant Haven in France, talked about elephants he studied in Thailand. After one died, another lingered by the body for three days. \u201cShe needed to say goodbye,\u201d Verhulst says. \u201cShe knows where they buried her, and she still goes back to the gravesite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elephant mourning rituals can be downright eerie. Joyce Poole, an animal behaviorist and author of Coming of Age With Elephants: A Memoir, <\/em>says, \u201cTheir silence is unsettling. The only sound is the slow blowing of air out of their trunks as they investigate their dead companion. It\u2019s as if even the birds have stopped singing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolphins are another species known for their grieving rituals. Like elephants, dolphins<\/a> often travel in groups. Mother dolphins will sometimes carry their dead young for days. The mourning isn\u2019t restricted to mothers. According to the book How Animals Grieve, <\/em>by anthropologist Barbara J. King, when scientists studied dolphins off the Canary Islands in 2001, they observed a mother dolphin carrying her baby\u2019s carcass. One adult dolphin swam directly in front of her, another directly behind her. The same mother dolphin was later seen with other adults in her pod\u2014some even helped her carry the body. For six days, they wouldn\u2019t let her grieve alone.<\/p>\n

Not that there\u2019s a time limit to how long animals grieve. The mourning can last weeks, months, even longer. Take the famous story of Hidesabur\u014d Ueno, a professor of agriculture at Japan\u2019s Tokyo University in the 1920s. He had an Akita pup named Hachik\u014d, whom he affectionately called Hachi. Hachi would walk him to the train every morning and greet him there at night.<\/p>\n

In 1925, Ueno passed away at his office. The dog went to the train station every day for the next 10 years, <\/em>patiently waiting for his owner and friend to return. People started calling him Chuken-Hachik\u014d, <\/em>or \u201cthe faithful dog Hachik\u014d.\u201d Today a statue stands in dedication to his loyalty and love<\/a> at the Shibuya train station in Tokyo, lest we underestimate the rich emotional lives many animals have.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrief is born from love.\u201d That\u2019s what Barbara J. King writes in How Animals Grieve. <\/em>Surely that\u2019s true for all of God\u2019s creatures.<\/p>\n

Read more: Anthropologist Barbara J. King on Grief in the Animal Kingdom<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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