Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.
Prologue: on grief and love
Keening for Carson the cat
A dog's best friend
Mourning on the farm
Why bunnies get depressed
Elephant bones
Do monkeys mourn?
Chimpanzees, cruel to be kind
Bird love
Sea of emotion: dolphins, whales, and turtles
No boundaries: cross-species grief
Animal suicide?
Ape grief
On bison death in Yellowstone and obituaries of animals
Writing grief
The prehistory of grief.
How animals grieve by Barbara J. King. ISBN 9780226436944. Published by The University of Chicago Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.