Primate mothers may carry infants after death as a way of grieving, study finds

Some primate species may express grief over the death of their infant by carrying the corpse with them, sometimes for months, according to a new UCL-led study—with implications for our understanding of how non-human animals experience emotion.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-09-primate-mothers-infants-death-grieving.html