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Playing Possum How Animals Understand Death
Susana Monsó
How animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying cor...
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Bird Pinkerton mentioned the title while exploring whether animal grief is real, noting that it examines how animals understand death and encourages listeners to move beyond a human‑centric view of grief. The episode cited the book as evidence of research expanding our perspective on animal behavior.
Episode: Is animal grief real?
This book explored how animals understand death, which was discussed in the context of moving past focusing only on human-like grief responses in animals.
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Susanna Monceau has a book on how animals understand death called Playing Possum.
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