Barbara J. King, an anthropology professor at William & Mary College, has spent her career exploring the depth of animals' emotional lives.
A January 2025 article from the BBC’s Jasmin Fox-Skelly details numerous examples, from an elderly elephant shedding tears and eventually succumbing to grief after an elephant she had befriended died ...
In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...
As the female orca ... animals expressing sorrow when they survive the death of a loved one." On Thursday, the Washington-state-based Center for Whale Research said in a Facebook post that the mother, ...
Scientists discovered ancient marine reptiles that reached unprecedented trophic levels. These creatures exceeded today’s top predators.
As the female orca known ... across species of animals expressing sorrow when they survive the death of a loved one." On Thursday, the Washington-state-based Center for Whale Research said in ...
In this photo provided by NOAA Fisheries, the orca known as J35 (Tahlequah) carries the carcass of her dead calf ... of animals expressing sorrow when they survive the death of a loved one." On ...