Comments on: Book review – Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

By: Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2024 | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:16:57 +0000

[…] Princeton University Press published this translation from the Spanish original by philosopher Susana Monsó where she provides an exceedingly interesting take on how animals understand death. Playing Possum manages to be both accessible to a general audience and relevant to specialists by showing why comparative thanatology still has a whole lot of growing up to do. Read more… […]

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By: Book review – How Animals Grieve | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – How Animals Grieve | The Inquisitive Biologist — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 12:08:08 +0000

[…] are humans alone in understanding death? To prepare for reviewing Susana Monsó’s new book Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death, I reach back in time to 2013 to a highly relevant book that has been sitting on my shelf unread […]

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By: Book review – The Biology of Death: How Dying Shapes Cells, Organisms, & Populations | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 12:05:46 +0000

[…] the anecdotal evidence of grieving in animals—stay tuned for more on this topic in the upcoming Playing Possum. And I was intrigued by the idea that the many hominid species evolving after Homo erectus might be […]

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