[Animals] Animals and grief: how they deal with the loss of a loved one

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Dogs, dolphins, elephants and other species display mourning behaviors at the departure of other loved ones.

Dogs, dolphins, elephants and other species face the loss of their loved ones with grieving behaviors that amaze and question their sentience so often denied by humans.

The mourning that you have when someone close to you dies is one of the worst situations you have to go through.

For this reason, the human species, according to its different cultures, has elaborated ceremonies and rituals of all kinds to try to understand the game, bear its absence and remember people who are no longer on this plane.

Sometimes talking about the subject is avoided, and even in many areas the word "death" is almost prohibited, creating customs or stigmas that pass through generations.

Through experiments, scientific work and different observations, it has been discovered that the human species is not the only one that is saddened and generates rituals or special attitudes in the absence of their near and dear beings.

Although we cannot get to know what they really think or feel, many animals also experience mourning and elaborate it through ritual behaviors.

Dogs that live in close contact with people are capable of tracking the graves of their nearby humans and finding them even after a few days of death.

That search for closeness even after death speaks to us not only of his tracking ability but above all of his immeasurable loyalty.

The elephant is such a large animal that it could even surprise you because of the emotional actions it has towards its deceased relatives.

Elephants can be seen repeatedly saying goodbye to the departure of another being by rubbing their trunks, as if trying to revive them.

Another example is magpies, which perform perhaps the closest thing to what is known as a funeral. These birds, which normally move in flocks, come to meet at the place where their known individual died, remaining there for days, almost as if watching over it.

Dolphins are recognized for their great intelligence, but they are also supportive and have a great group spirit, with a very marked sense of gregariousness that leads them to take care of the corpses of their dead relatives so that they are not devoured by other species.

To talk about geese, we should put a romantic accent on it, since it has been proven that when widowed, that is, when their partner dies, they never procreate again or have another type of bond for the purpose of procreating.

In one way or another, the different species demonstrate their perception of the death of others of their species or closeness and their respect for it.

https://www.infobae.com/perros-y-gatos/2023/05/21/los-animales-y-el-duelo-como-afrontan-la-perdida-de-un-ser-cercano/