It was as though the chimps had processed that that unusual animal could no longer hurt them. But this is precisely what understanding death essentially means: grasping that a dead individual can ...
Source: Gleive Marcio Rodrigues de Souza/Pexels. I've long been interested in what nonhuman animals (animals) know and feel about death and dying including if they know when others are dying.
Throughout history, humans have given a lot of thought to death. We’ve grappled with our mortality, created elaborate burial rituals, and contemplated how best to mourn the loss of a loved one. But ...
Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It's a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants ...
It was as though the chimps had processed that that unusual animal could no longer hurt them. But this is precisely what understanding death essentially means: grasping that a dead individual can no ...
During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died near a river in the Kashmir Valley of South Asia. Not long after, they were ...