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Animals feel grief.

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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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4 sources for · 0 against

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Is it true that animals feel grief?

Unclear. Only a few passing references touch the claim: one Wikipedia article notes strong evidence that animals can feel loss for other animals, and one older book asserts animals feel grief as we do. None of the placed sources examines animal grief in any depth, so the evidence covers the claim only in part.

Verdict: PARTIAL LEAN · 4 sources for, 0 against · Last checked

Evidence for · 4
The souls of animals
1991
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Kowalski, G. A. (1991). The souls of animals. archive.org. https://archive.org/details/soulsofanimals00kowa

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Draper's Self Culture Volume 3 (Animal Stories and Natural History, Vol III)
1907
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Draper's Self Culture Volume 3 (Animal Stories and Natural History, Vol III). (1907). archive.org. https://archive.org/details/bwb_O6-CVY-854

Animal and plant life spans
1978
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1904-, H. A. L. (1978). Animal and plant life spans. archive.org. https://archive.org/details/animalplantlifes00hopf

Wikipedia: Animal loss
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Wikipedia: Animal loss. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_loss

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