It's curious to me how we humans are finally recognizing the intelligence exhibited by animals in their grieving. I saw a video years ago about a herd of mule deer which showed the grieving process of a mother deer whose calf died a relatively short time after birth.

Oh wow...

Most do not. The animal world is full of love that we as people refuse to recognize.

Thank you for sharing .

It's "an intense feeling of deep affection". That would generally be based on social reciprocity, or at least on anticipated or hoped-for social reciprocity.

I have always held that love is the absence of fear - fear is a big 'stopper' love seems a big 'go-for- it! there was a set of short stories by some philosopher whose name I cannot remember one of them was a man was going to jump off tower bridge and a policeman saw it and knew if he tried to save him he too might perish but in the moment of weighing up he realised that this would endanger his whole sense of himself and his humanity - -they both survived.