An Individual‐Level and Controlled Methodological Framework in Primate Thanatology
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How primates sense, cognize, and respond to death, and are affected by it, are broad research themes within primate thanatology. When primate thanatology adopts a comparative framework, it can illuminate the diversity and evolutionary continuity of psycho‐neuro‐emotional responses to death and dying across primate species, including humans. Evolutionary or comparative thanatology has recently gained momentum, but it lacks methodological consistency, quantitative rigor, and coherent reporting standards. We attempt to address the lack of standardized approaches by introducing an individual‐level comparative framework and employing standard ethological methods, accompanied by well‐defined behavioral variables. We argue that the proposed framework can capture individual‐specific responses to conspecific death and enable hypothesis‐driven studies. The framework is essential to examine the large number of hypotheses that have accumulated in the field
Comparative psychology · Nonhuman primate · Primate · Thanatology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Primate Behavior and Ecology
Mothers stick together
Record of thanatology and cannibalism in drills (Mandrillus leucophaeus)
Changes in social behavior and fecal glucocorticoids in a Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) carrying her dead infant
Behavioral and adrenocortical responses of rhesus macaque mothers to infant separation in an unfamiliar environment
Death anxiety and its role in psychopathology
Responses of chimpanzees to a recently dead community member at Gombe National Park, Tanzania
Behavior of Mothers after Infant Loss in Bonnet Macaques (Macaca radiata)
Death is common, so is understanding it
Carrying of dead infants by Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) mothers
Cross-sectional time-series experiments
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