Add to ORKGIn responding to insightful commentaries from 7 scholars, for which I am grateful, I offer new thoughts on whether animals can conceptualize and express signs of grief. I also discuss why I included both weak and strong examples of animal mourning, and how this work may help us think about enhanced welfare for animals, including freedom from emotional suffering
The possibility of conscious experiences of emotions in non-human animals has been much less explore...
For those who continue to doubt the studiability of distress or suffering or misery in all of its fo...
The goal of Animal Welfare Science to reduce animal suffering is commendable but too modest: Sufferi...
Barbara King presents grief as the result of the capacity of human and non-human animals for social ...
The nature of evidence appropriate to the study of animal emotion (and cognition) is discussed in th...
Abstract: When an animal dies, that individual’s mate, relatives, or friends may express grief. Chan...
This commentary reviews Barbara King’s How Animals Grieve, delving into the controversial topic of t...
King’s How animals grieve beautifully describes several ways in which animals and humans show a simi...
Our very words for grief are borrowed, in the first place, from animals: a howling, a wailing, a kee...
Animals under human management are often separated from conspecifics, which may lead to behaviour in...
My commentary discusses complicated grief and the ensuing sense of helplessness that may lead to sui...
Despite considerable advances in the study of animal sentience, reluctance to credit non-human anima...
King discusses many examples where two animals, as they bond, behave in ways we interpret as express...
There is a good deal more suffering in human life that there is in our theories of emotion. One reas...
The concept of sentience concerns the capacity to have feelings. There is evidence for sophisticated...
The possibility of conscious experiences of emotions in non-human animals has been much less explore...
For those who continue to doubt the studiability of distress or suffering or misery in all of its fo...
The goal of Animal Welfare Science to reduce animal suffering is commendable but too modest: Sufferi...
Barbara King presents grief as the result of the capacity of human and non-human animals for social ...
The nature of evidence appropriate to the study of animal emotion (and cognition) is discussed in th...
Abstract: When an animal dies, that individual’s mate, relatives, or friends may express grief. Chan...
This commentary reviews Barbara King’s How Animals Grieve, delving into the controversial topic of t...
King’s How animals grieve beautifully describes several ways in which animals and humans show a simi...
Our very words for grief are borrowed, in the first place, from animals: a howling, a wailing, a kee...
Animals under human management are often separated from conspecifics, which may lead to behaviour in...
My commentary discusses complicated grief and the ensuing sense of helplessness that may lead to sui...
Despite considerable advances in the study of animal sentience, reluctance to credit non-human anima...
King discusses many examples where two animals, as they bond, behave in ways we interpret as express...
There is a good deal more suffering in human life that there is in our theories of emotion. One reas...
The concept of sentience concerns the capacity to have feelings. There is evidence for sophisticated...
The possibility of conscious experiences of emotions in non-human animals has been much less explore...
For those who continue to doubt the studiability of distress or suffering or misery in all of its fo...
The goal of Animal Welfare Science to reduce animal suffering is commendable but too modest: Sufferi...