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Cheney, Dorothy L., and Robert M. Seyfarth.
Baboon Metaphysics: The Evoution of a Social Mind
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Quoted material, pp. 193, 195.
Engh, Anne L., Jacinta C. Beehner, Thore J. Bergman, Patricia L Whitten, Rebekah R Hoffmeier, Robert M. Seyfarth, and Dorothy L. Cheney. “Behavioural and Hormonal Responses to Predation in Female Chacma Baboons (
Papio hamadryas ursinus
)
.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B
273 (2006): 707–12. Quoted material, p. 709.
Fashing, Peter J., Nga Nguyen, Tyler S. Barry, C. Barret Goodale, Ryan J. Burke, Sorrel C. Z. Jones, Jeffrey T. Kerby, Laura M. Lee, Niina O. Nurmi, and Vivek V. Venkataraman. “Death among Geladas (
Theropithecus gelada
): A Broader Perspective on Mummified Infants and Primate Thanatology.”
American Journal of Primatology
73 (2011): 405–9. Quoted material, p. 408.
Mendoza, Sally, and William Mason. “Contrasting Responses to Intruders and to Involuntary Separation by Monogamous and Polygynous New World Monkeys.”
Physiology and Behavior
38 (1986): 795–801.
Sugiyama, Yukimaru, Hiroyuki Kurita, Takeshi Matsu, Satoshi Kimoto, and Tadatoshi Shimomura. “Carrying of Dead Infants by Japanese Macaque (
Macaca fuscata
) Mothers.”
Anthropological Science
117 (2009): 113–19.
VIDEO
Clever Monkeys
, narrated by David Attenborough (segment on toque monkeys starts at 1:15):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaiFfSui4oc.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Anderson, James R. “A Primatological Perspective on Death.”
American Journal of Primatology
71 (2011): 1–5. Quoted material, p. 2.
Biro,
Dora, Tatyana Humle, Kathelijne Koops, Claudia Sousa, Misato Hayashi, and Tetsuro Matsuzawa. “Chimpanzee Mothers at Bossou, Guinea Carry the Mummified Remains of Their Dead Infants.”
Current Biology
20 (2010): R351–R352. Quoted material, p. R351.
Boesch, Christophe, and Hedwige Boesch-Achermann.
The Chimpanzees of Tai Forest
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Quoted material, pp. 248–49.
Goodall, Jane van Lawick. 1971.
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.
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King, Barbara J. “Against Animal Natures: An Anthropologist’s View.” 2012.
http://www.beinghuman.org/article/against-animal-natures-anthropologist’s-view.
Sorenson, John.
Ape
. London: Reaktion Books, 2009. Quoted material, pp. 70, 85.
VIDEO Chimpanzee attack on Grapelli, narrated by David Watts (“Gang of Chimps Attack and Kill a Lone Chimp”; attack itself begins around 3 minutes in):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPznMbNcfO8.
VIDEO Chimpanzee attack, narrated by David Attenborough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7XuXi3mqYM&feature=fvst.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Barash, David. “Deflating the Myth of Monogamy.”
Chronicle of Higher Education,
April 21, 2001.
Heinrich, Bernd.
Mind of the Raven
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.
The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy
. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2010. Quoted material, p. 26.
Marzluff, John M., and Tony Angell.
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans.
New York: Free Press, 2012. Quoted material, pp. 141, 146.
.
In the Company of Crows and Ravens
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Quoted material, pp. 187, 195.
VIDEO The storks Rodan and Malena (narration in French):
http://videos.tf1.fr/infos/2010/love-story-au-pays-des-cigognes-5786575.html.
CHAPTER NINE
ABC News. “Whales Mourn If a Family Member Is Taken: Scientists.” August 20, 2008.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-08-10/whales-mourn-if-a-family-member-is-taken-scientists/470268.
Bearzi, Giovanni. “A Mother Bottlenose Dolphin Mourning Her Dead Newborn Calf in the Amvrakikos Gulf, Greece.” Tethys Research Institute report (with photo).
http://www.wdcs-de.org/docs/Bottlenose_Dolphin_mourning_dead_newborn_calf.pdf.
Evans, Karen, Margaret Morrice, Mark Hindell, and Deborah Thiele. “Three Mass
Whale
Strandings of Sperm Whales (
Physeter macrocephalus
) in Southern Australian Waters.”
Marine Mammal Science
18 (2002): 622–43.
Klinkenborg, Verlyn.
Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile
. New York: Vintage Books, 2007.
Ritter, Fabian. “Behavioral Responses of Rough-Toothed Dolphins to a Dead Newborn Calf.”
Marine Mammal Science
23(2007): 429–33. Quoted material, pp. 430, 431.
Rose, Anthony. “On Tortoises Monkeys & Men.” In
Kinship with the Animals,
edited by Michael Tobias and Kate Solisti-Mattelon. Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Publishing, 1998.
http://goldray.com/bushmeat/pdf/tortoisemonkeymen.pdf.
VIDEO Male sea turtle at memorial for Honey Girl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkVXucG1AeA.
VIDEO Dolphin-whale play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC3AkGSigrA.
VIDEO Still photographs and video related to whale mourning/whale strandings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaViQ7FHJPI.
CHAPTER TEN
Elephant Sanctuary. Account of Bella’s death.
http://www.elephants.com/elediary.php
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Holland, Jennifer.
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Pierce, Jessica.
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Quoted material, pp. 220, 199.
Zimmer, Carl. “Friends with Benefits.”
Time
, February 20, 2012, 34–39.
PHOTO Tarra and Bella together:
http://www.elephants.com/Bella/Bella.php.
VIDEO Polar bears and dogs playing:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ag9o_polar-bears-and-dogs-playing_animal.
VIDEO
CBS Sunday Morning
, “The Common Bond of Animal Odd Couples”:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7362308n&tag=contentMain;contentBody.
PHOTO Tinky the cat at the piano:
http://www.barbarajking.com/blog.htm?post=801721.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
ABC Science
. “Lemmings Suicide Myth.” April 27, 2004.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/04/27/1081903.htm.
Bekoff, Marc. “Bear Kills Son and Herself on a Chinese Bear Farm.”
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201108/bear-kills-son-and-herself-chinese-bear-farm.
Birkett, Lucy, and Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher. “How Abnormal Is the Behaviour of Captive, Zoo-Living Chimpanzees?”
PLoS ONE
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Bradshaw, G. A., A. N. Schore, J. L. Brown, J. H. Poole, and C. J. Moss. “Elephant Breakdown.”
Nature
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Guardian
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Karmelek, Mary. “Was This Gazelle’s Death an Accident or a Suicide?”
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King, Barbara J. “When a Daughter Self-Harms.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/07/12/156550195/when-a-daughter-self-harms.
Poulsen, Else. 2009.
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CHAPTER TWELVE
Anderson, James R., Alasdair Gillies, and Louse C. Lock. “
Pan
Thanatology.”
Current Biology
20 (2010): R349–R351. Quoted material, p. R350.
Goodall, Jane van Lawick.
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Folia primatologica
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Berger, Joel.
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Quoted material, p. 117.
Bradbury, Ray.
Dandelion Wine
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Desmond, Jane. “Animal Deaths and the Written Record of History: The Politics of Pet Obituaries.” In
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Lott, Dale F.
American Bison: A Natural History
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Quoted material, p. 4.
Whittlesey, Lee H.
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. Lanham, MD: Roberts Rinehart, 1995. Quoted material, pp. 4, 30.
PHOTO Martha Mason in her iron lung:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/us/10mason.html.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Archer, John.
The Nature of Grief: The Evolution and Psychology of Reactions to Loss
. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Didion, Joan.
The Year of Magical Thinking
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Goldman, Francisco.
Say Her Name
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Lewis,
C. S.
A Grief Observed
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Oates, Joyce Carol.
A Widow’s Story
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Rosenblatt, Roger.
Kayak Morning
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.
Making Toast
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Saunders, Frances Stonor. “Too Much Grief.”
Guardian
, August 19, 2011.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/19/grief-memoir-oates-didion-orourke.
Volk, Tyler.
What Is Death? A Scientist Looks at the Life Cycle
. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002. Quoted material, pp. 84–85.
VIDEO Gombe chimpanzees at waterfall, narrated by Jane Goodall:
http://www.janegoodall.org/chimp-central-waterfall-displays.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella, Bernard Vandermeersch, and Ofer Bar-Yosef. 2009. “Shells and Ochre in Middle Paleolithic Qafzeh Cave, Israel: Indications for Modern Behavior.”
Journal of Human Evolution
56 (2009): 307–14.
Formicola, V., and A. P. Buzhilova. “Double Child Burial from Sunghir (Russia): Pathology and Inferences for Upper Paleolithic Funerary Practices.”
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
124 (2004): 189–98. Quoted material, p. 189.
Goldman, Francisco.
Say Her Name
. New York: Grove Press, 2011. Quoted material, pp. 306, 313.
Henshilwood, C. S., F. d’Errico, K. L. van Niekerk, Y. Coquinot, Z. Jacobs, S.-E. Lauritzen, M. Menu, and R. Garcia-Moreno. “A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa.”
Science
334 (2011): 219–22.
Volk, Tyler.
What Is Death? A Scientist Look at the Cycle of Life.
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002. Quoted material, p. 83.
VIDEO/PHOTO Amos, Jonathan. “Ancient ‘Paint Factory’ Unearthed.” BBC News:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15257259.
AFTERWORD
Archer, John.
The Nature of Grief: The Evolution and Psychology of Reactions to Loss
. New York: Routledge, 1999. Quoted material, p. 1.
Sullivan, Deirdre. “Always Go to the Funeral.”
http://thisibelieve.org/essay/8/.
INDEX
Page numbers in italics indicate photographs.
AAA (American Anthropological Association),
141–43
ABC Science
(Australia),
119
Acoma Indians,
93–94
Afghanistan, US soldiers in,
30–31
Ahere, Meg,
166
Albert (chimpanzee),
77–78
Alpha (gorilla),
130
Altmann, Jeanne,
65
Amboseli (Kenya): baboon project,
53
,
56
,
65
,
69
; dangers,
80
; elephant research,
53–54
,
56–60
,
164
; variety of animals,
136