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> Are there any social mammals that DON'T grieve?

I remember a video of a hunter shooting a deer and the other deer around it didn't care and kept eating their grass. I suspect most cats are smarter than deers.

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Or the deer, constantly looking outside the herd for threats, did not understand what one deer suddenly falling over truly meant.

I doubt cats would immediately understand what was happening if one of them was suddenly shot by something they could not perceive either.

Even apart from the grieving, that sounds like very odd behaviour. Don't deer herds usually flee in all directions the moment they hear the bang of a shot? It seems weird they'd not react at all here.

Late, but I assumed some kind of silencer was used.

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