This online textbook chapter will provide students with an understanding of the mourning behaviors in animals. It explores the different definitions used to compile the data today and provides examples across a variety of species including non-human primates, crows, elephants, dolphins, and whales. Multiple studies are cited which aim to collect firsthand observational data as well as data analyzation from a variety of perspectives around the globe. This chapter is distributed under a Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (last modified May 1st 2023).

Creator

• Smith, Chiara
• Corbin, Katherine
• Vieira, Julie
• Frizzle, Parker

Subject

• OER

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Keyword

• Funeral rituals
• Animal behavior
• Mourning

Advisor

• Bakermans, Marja

Date created

• 2023

Resource type

• Part of Book

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Last modified

• 2023-05-02