Responses to death and dying: primates and other mammals

A comparative perspective on the evolution of mammalian reactions to dead conspecifics

(2019) Fred B. Bercovitch   PRIMATES

Observations on the response of a pod of hippos to a dead juvenile hippo ( Hippopotamus amphibius , Linnaeus 1758)

(2019) Victoria L. Inman et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intra-community infanticide in wild, eastern chimpanzees: a 24-year review

(2019) Adriana E. Lowe et al.   PRIMATES

Feral horses’ (Equus ferus caballus) behavior toward dying and dead conspecifics

(2019) Renata S. Mendonça et al.   PRIMATES

Behavioral responses around conspecific corpses in adult eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei spp.)

(2019) Amy Porter et al.   PeerJ

Corpse-directed play parenting by a sterile adult female chimpanzee

(2019) Jacob D. Negrey et al.   PRIMATES

Responses to dead and dying conspecifics and heterospecifics by wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

(2019) David P. Watts   PRIMATES

Prolonged care and cannibalism of infant corpse by relatives in semi-free-ranging capuchin monkeys

(2019) Cinzia Trapanese et al.   PRIMATES

Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) console a bereaved mother?

(2019) Zoë Goldsborough et al.   PRIMATES

Behavioural responses of free-ranging Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) towards dying and dead conspecifics

(2019) Nachiketha Sharma et al.   PRIMATES

Responses to a dead companion in a captive group of tufted capuchins (Sapajus apella)

(2019) Arianna De Marco et al.   PRIMATES

Reaction to allospecific death and to an unanimated gorilla infant in wild western gorillas: insights into death recognition and prolonged maternal carrying

(2019) Shelly Masi   PRIMATES

Attached beyond death: Wild female western lowland gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla gorilla ) carries and cares for mummified infant

(2019) Claudia Stephan   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Reaction to the death of the oldest female in a group of chimpanzees at the Municipal Zoological Garden, Warsaw

(2019) Anna Jakucińska et al.   PRIMATES

Elephant behavior toward the dead: A review and insights from field observations

(2019) Shifra Z. Goldenberg et al.   PRIMATES

Social relationships and death-related behaviour in aquatic mammals: a systematic review

(2018) Melissa A. L. V. Reggente et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Occurrence and variability of tactile interactions between wild American crows and dead conspecifics

(2018) Kaeli Swift et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Chimpanzees and death

(2018) James R. Anderson   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Behaviour of nonhuman primate mothers toward their dead infants: uncovering mechanisms

(2018) Claire F. I. Watson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Managing the risks and rewards of death in eusocial insects

(2018) Qian Sun et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comparative thanatology, an integrative approach: exploring sensory/cognitive aspects of death recognition in vertebrates and invertebrates

(2018) André Gonçalves et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolutionary thanatology

(2018) James R. Anderson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Whale and dolphin behavioural responses to dead conspecifics

(2018) Giovanni Bearzi et al.   ZOOLOGY

Deceased-infant carrying in nonhuman anthropoids: Insights from systematic analysis and case studies of bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata) and lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus).

(2018) Sayantan Das et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Comparison of the social systems of primates and feral horses: data from a newly established horse research site on Serra D’Arga, northern Portugal

(2017) Monamie Ringhofer et al.   PRIMATES

Chimpanzees' responses to the dead body of a 9-year-old group member

(2016) Edwin J.C. van Leeuwen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Tending a dying adult in a wild multi-level primate society

(2016) Bin Yang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Comparative thanatology

(2016) James R. Anderson   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Behavioral responses to injury and death in wild Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

(2016) Liz A. D. Campbell et al.   PRIMATES

Wild American crows gather around their dead to learn about danger

(2015) Kaeli N. Swift et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Responses towards a dying adult group member in a wild New World monkey

(2014) Bruna Martins Bezerra et al.   PRIMATES

Observations of a free-ranging adult female dingo (Canis dingo) and littermates’ responses to the death of a pup

(2013) Rob Appleby et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Chemical shark repellent: Myth or fact? The effect of a shark necromone on shark feeding behavior

(2013) Eric M. Stroud et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Giraffe mothers in East Africa linger for days near the remains of their dead calves

(2012) Megan K. L. Strauss et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Giraffe cow reaction to the death of her newborn calf

(2012) Fred B. Bercovitch   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Maternal responses to dead infants in Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) in the Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China

(2012) Tengfei Li et al.   PRIMATES

A primatological perspective on death

(2011) James R. Anderson   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Behavioral response of a chimpanzee mother toward her dead infant

(2011) Katherine A. Cronin et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Responses of chimpanzees to a recently dead community member at Gombe National Park, Tanzania

(2011) Fiona Anne Stewart et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Death among geladas (Theropithecus gelada): a broader perspective on mummified infants and primate thanatology

(2010) Peter J. Fashing et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Chimpanzee mothers at Bossou, Guinea carry the mummified remains of their dead infants

(2010) Dora Biro et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Pan thanatology

(2010) James R. Anderson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Large brains and cognition: Where do elephants fit in?

(2007) Benjamin L. Hart et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS