Many animals are smarter than you might think. Elephants, besides being the largest land animals to walk the earth, are exceptionally intelligent. Beyond their amazing pattern recognition skills and ...

For many years, people believed grief was a deeply human emotion. Scientists once assumed that animals reacted to death only ...

Across the animal world, responses to death take forms that are difficult to ignore. A creature might linger beside a fallen companion, carry a body long after it can no longer move, or return ...

Over the past couple of years I've written about various aspects of the rich and complex emotional lives of animals, including essays on grief and mourning. I began one of those essays by writing, ...