Prologue: on grief and love
Keening for Carson the cat
A dog's best friend
Mourning on the farm
Why bunnies get depressed
Elephant bones
Do monkeys mourn?
Chimpanzees, cruel to be kind
Bird love
Sea of emotion: dolphins, whales, and turtles
No boundaries: cross-species grief
Animal suicide?
Ape grief
On bison death in Yellowstone and obituaries of animals
Writing grief
The prehistory of grief.