Re-posted from Faunalytics, in this blog, “animal chaplain Alaina Sigler offers data, insights, and personal experiences navigating animal grief, serving as both a case study and a call for more research in this understudied area.”
“There are numerous fields of study that I find fascinating within animal advocacy, and reading about animal spirituality in Through a Windowby Jane Goodall, took me on a journey to better support animals. My studies in Animal Chaplaincy, including a passage from Through a Window, weaved together fields of study in animal theology, nature spirituality, interspirituality, humane education, and human-animal studies.”
“In Through a Window, readers witness raw emotions through breathtaking tales of Jane Goodall’s time spent with chimpanzees in Gombe, Nigeria. Goodall’s observations of a chimpanzee community rocked our preconceived notion that only humans have lives rich with emotion. Goodall’s stories reached into our hearts as joy, anger, sorrow, love, and more are highlighted in her experiences in Gombe. It’s been decades since the book was published, and still, we learn about how to better support other animals with lessons from the text such as when Goodall recounts the grief of Flint’s a chimpanzee living in Gombe Stream National Park. “