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Homer llamas show animals can experience grief

Link: Psychology Today PT correspondent Marc Bekoff, an evolutionary biologist and author of "The Emotional Lives of Animals," writes of the evidence that animals experience emotions, especially grief. He cites the observations of llama owner Betsy Webb of Homer, who watched two of her animals cope with the sudden death of two others. "We carefully hoisted Boone and Bridger over the fence and into the ground, then covered them," Webb wrote. "The other pair, Taffy and Pumpernickel, stood by and watched the entire process quietly. For the next two days, stoic Taffy ... stared at the hole in the ground. Excitable Pumpernickel stayed in his little barn and wailed for two days."

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