Elephants have long unsettled and fascinated observers with what looks uncannily like a funeral rite, lingering over carcasses, touching bones and even covering bodies with soil and branches. For ...

Across the animal world, responses to death take forms that are difficult to ignore. A creature might linger beside a fallen companion, carry a body long after it can no longer move, or return ...

Many animals are smarter than you might think. Elephants, besides being the largest land animals to walk the earth, are exceptionally intelligent. Beyond their amazing pattern recognition skills and ...

I begin with elephants because an essay in the Washington Post by Jason Bittel titled " An elephant’s story does not end when it dies " covers some of the information that's included about these ...

Over the past couple of years I've written about various aspects of the rich and complex emotional lives of animals, including essays on grief and mourning. I began one of those essays by writing, ...