How animals mourn
Some famous quotes also.
It is indisputable that some animals are capable of feeling grief stories of wild animals displaying emotions are not new or unusual.
â On the saddest of sights in a world of sin is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.â(Arthur Gitterman)
The bond between a female whale and her calf is very strong.
âShall we, because we walk our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability? (George Eliot.)
Elephant display an evident understanding of death and grief, a heard will stay with the remains of companion gently touching her body with their trunks.
âThe risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief.(Hilary Stanton Zunin.)
Physical contact among great apes has been shown to provide reassurance in times of stress and grief.
Animals that tend to display signs of grief are those which are known to have memories.
Whales would ram whaling ships when one of their members was killed but display no such animosity towards whale watching vessels.
âAsk of the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth. (St.Francis of Assisi)
There is indisputable evidence to show that dogs especially can react in a negative way to the loss of their companion.
Many owners would privately accept that their pets show sign of emotion, including the grief.
With companion animals especially, it is not just death but separation, too, that can lead to grief.
âOf all the animals, surely the dog is the only one that really shares our life, helps in our work, and has a place in our recreation, It is the only one that becomes so fond of us that sometimes it cannot go on living after its master dies.â (Ferdinand Mercy)
Stable cats and horses can form close bonds.
âGrief canât be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way.â (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) This is true for us people also.
â And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a
void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!â(Charles Dickens)
âTears are the silent language of grief.â (Voltaire)
âThere is no grief like the grief that does not speak.â (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
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