National Geographic: Do Chimps Grieve?

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[caption id="attachment_74" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption=""CameroonAt the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center, more than a dozen residents form a gallery of grief, looking on as Dorothya beloved female felled in her late 40s by heart failureis borne to her burial." - National Geographic"]

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[smashthemachine]

I don't see it in their faces at all, but I do believe that they felt grief. It seems natural that animals would feel something for each other and understand what death means, even if they don't think exactly the way we do.