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Animals mourn their dead. Could this contribute to their survival?

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“Animals mourn their dead. Could this contribute to their survival?”

Crows or ferrets clustering around a corpse might catch the disease that killed their friend or be caught by its predator. Why do they do it? The 'funeral hypothesis' posits evolutionary advantages to this ostensibly odd behavior

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