Do species other than humans have rituals?

Mating rituals

Definitely, mating rituals.

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>>18920560

Noice.

look up magpies death ritual

>>18920528
everytime i fill my cat's bowl, it touches it once with its right forehand, twice with the left and then once more with the right before eating. every. fucking. time.

>>18920528
Is this good enough for you?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mysterious-chimpanzee-behavior-may-be-evidence-of-sacred-rituals/

>>18920581
That was really sweet, it kinda made my night

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>>18920528
That pic is related; stray cats in the "wild" city/suburbs will occasionally congregate in set areas in the neighborhood.
I've heard that it may be a spot where they congregate to compete for mates/etc, but others have reported that sometimes they just congregate, sit around doing nothing too exciting for a few hours, then gradually disperse.
Pic related; stole it from reddit after a google search.

>>18920528
Found this copy/pasta while googling:

Elephants have such intense social groups that they become extremely upset when one of their own dies. Of all animal grieving and funeral rituals, there is none as well documented or well known as the elephant’s.

Upon seeing the bones or carcass of another elephant, a family will stop and investigate them, even if the elephant was unrelated to the group. The ritual includes touching the bones gently with their trunks while remaining very quiet, covering the body with leaves and grass, and if the elephant belonged to their own, staying with the body for days or weeks at a time.

Elephant researcher Martin Meredith had this story to tell: ”The entire family of a dead matriarch, including her young calf, were all gently touching her body with their trunks, trying to lift her. The elephant herd were all rumbling loudly. The calf was observed to be weeping and made sounds that sounded like a scream, but then the entire herd fell incredibly silent. They then began to throw leaves and dirt over the body and broke off tree branches to cover her. They spent the next two days quietly standing over her body. They sometimes had to leave to get water or food, but they would always return.”

Elephants are such compassionate animals that they’ll even grieve for and bury their number one killers… us. A news report in Kenya told of an elephant that trampled a human mother and her child and then stopped to bury them before disappearing in the bush.

>>18920661
upload to YT and call it the /x/ mascot

>>18920799
We have discovered through this that cats are not the solitary animals we once thought. Or at least overcrowding has created an epigenetic switch such that the solitary animals have developed a social behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_cat#Colonies