Death rituals in the animal kingdom We know humans find some form of value in guarding or watching the bodies of the deceased, but in the first article for his new column, Jason Goldman explains how we are beginning to discover that animals may have similar needs. When a Jewish person dies, according to tradition, a member of a group called the chevra kadisha stays with the body from death until burial, continually reciting passages from the book of P
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Elks The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is one of the largest species of deer in the world, and one of the largest land mammals in North America and eastern Asia. It was long believed to be a subspecies(подвид) of the European red deer (Cervus elaphus), but evidence(данные) from a 2004 study of the mitochondrial DNA (митохондриальная ДНК)indicates ... Read more »
