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Animal thanatology

The study of how animals respond to the death of members of their own species, including attending, guarding or carrying a body, and what those responses suggest about social bonds and cognition.

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A camera lowered off the Gold Coast captured the first documented humpback stillbirth

Newborn humpbacks lack the blubber to float, so a stillborn calf sinks out of sight almost at once. None of the roughly 20 humpback births in the literature was a stillbirth until a Gold Coast crew put a camera in the water.

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