Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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Smart and often sociable, whales forge tight bonds with one another. More than six species of the marine mammals have been seen clinging to the body of a dead compatriot, probably a podmate or relative. The most likely explanation for the animals' refusal to let go of the corpses: grief.
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Read More »Update, July 26, 2018: This story was originally published on July 18, 2016. It has been updated with information about J35 and the death of her calf. Earlier this week, J35, an orca living off the coast of Washington, gave birth. But within half an hour, she watched her calf die. This is the second day she has appeared to mourn her young, pushing its dead body around in the water. More than once it has slid off her snout, and each time she’s dived to retrieve it. "It is unbelievably sad," Brad Hanson, a wildlife biologist at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, tells The Seattle Times. "It reflects the very strong bonds these animals have, and as a parent, you can only imagine what kinds of emotional stress these animals must be under, having these events happen." Smart and often sociable, whales forge tight bonds with one another. More than six species of the marine mammals have been seen clinging to the body of a dead compatriot, probably a podmate or relative. The most likely explanation for the animals’ refusal to let go of the corpses: grief. “They are mourning,” says Melissa Reggente, a biologist at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy and co-author of a 2016 study on the topic. “They are in pain and stressed. They know something is wrong.” Scientists have found a growing number of species, from giraffes to chimps, that behave as if stricken with grief. Elephants, for example, return again and again to the body of a dead companion. Such findings add to the debate about whether animals feel emotion—and, if they do, how such emotions should influence human treatment of other creatures. (See "Do Crows Hold Funerals for Their Dead?") Animal grief can be defined as emotional distress coupled with a disruption of usual behavior, according to Barbara King, emeritus professor of anthropology at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and author of the book How Animals Grieve.
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Read More »“We found it is very common, and [there is] a worldwide distribution of this behavior,” Reggente says. Scientists on a boat in the Red Sea, for example, watched an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin push the badly decayed corpse of a smaller dolphin through the water. After the researchers lassoed the dead animal and began towing it to land to bury it, the adult swam with the body, occasionally touching it, until the water became treacherously shallow. Long after the carcass had been taken away, the adult remained just offshore. (See National Geographic's beautiful whale pictures.) It’s not clear how the two dolphins were related, but chances are they were either mother and child or close kin, Reggente says. Such behavior, after all, has an enormous cost: A whale keeping vigil over a dead companion is a whale that isn’t eating or reinforcing its alliances with other whales.
A southern right whale encounters a diver on the sandy sea bottom off the Auckland Islands, New Zealand. Adults can reach lengths of 55 feet and weigh up to 60 tons.
A southern right whale encounters a diver on the sandy sea bottom off the Auckland Islands, New Zealand. Adults can reach lengths of 55 feet and weigh up to 60 tons. Photograph by Brian Skerry, Nat Geo Image Collection
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