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When Animals Mourn Barbara King Analysis

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When Animals Mourn
In the article of Barbara J. King, she talks about how human being can and should be there for the animal emotions. Dr. King's article gets into stories on how animals grieve and mourn on their lost companies, mates, or friends. She Examines the latest scientific evidence about grief in domestic and wild animals, and argues that grief aids in the survival of a species. She basically covers all the important topics about how animal mourn.
She talks about a dolphin who tries to keep her dead baby dolphin afloat. Elephants who surround their matriarch as she weakens and eventually dies, and in the next day they attend to her body as if holding a vigil. A cat who wails inconsolably after losing her sister, where she never been separated from her and spends weeks walking back and forth of the apartment, crying and sounding sad. A turtle who comes ashore and stares for hours at the photo of its dead loved one. A giraffe who keeps going back to the same spot where …show more content…

King is letting us know with the stories of the animals is that grief among animals will differ. She recognizes that other animals have very emotional lives and talks about how humans are unique and in her words, she says, “we alone fully anticipate the inevitability of death.” “We grasp that, one day, our minds will fade, our breathing stop -- whether gently or with horrifying suddenness, we can't know.” She also writes, “only our species turns mourning into art.” Just because we might grief and have different emotions from animals this doesn’t mean that they don’t mourn or have emotions with their loss ones. Anyone could easily argue just the opposite of what she’s saying; but Dr. King cleverly makes a point that not all humans show grieve publicly, so that being said, we can’t assume just because an animal doesn’t show grieve publicly, is proof that they do not grieve. People are not all the same, and neither are animals, but animals and the same for human have the capacity to

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