Mourning and similar feelings are not only reserved for just us humans. A lot of animals are able to feel that way, quite similar to us humans.
Camels for instance can actually cry because they’re feeling sad. Big cats can show compassion and not only for their species. There are some cases when lionesses protect youngs from other species. Cows have best friends and whenever they pass away the left ones produce a lot less milk in the mourning time. Pigs are very conscious, like they know what will happen to them during the slaughter.
Wolves mourn dead pack members by crying towards the moon to honor them but the most emotional animal have to be apes and elephants. They mourn, hush or remain whenever parts of their families die. Whenever an elephant cross a path, where another elephant found death, they stay a moment and poise and sometimes they even shed some tears.
I recently heard a little story, which seems especially emotional. An elephant was saved from a private owner from the south of china. The animal was held for 50 years in captivity on chains covered with spikes. When the police and animal welfarists arrived to free him, he started to cry tears of joy…
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