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Research on animals like coyotes and cockatoos challenges the belief that grief is exclusively human, suggesting many species experience existential loss.
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Do Animals Grieve?
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The feeling of existential loss was long thought to be uniquely human. But studies of coyotes, cockatoos and other creatures are prompting some scientists to reconsider.
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