How chimpanzees handle death: Anderson 2

An adult male chimpanzee displays aggressively toward the corpse of an elderly female who died peacefully the previous afternoon. This is the third such display by the male. He sits by the corpse, removes some straw that is covering it, and grooms it. An adult female arrives and also removes straw from the face region of the corpse.

See the paper by Anderson et al., Current Biology 20(8) pp. R349 R351: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2810%2900145-4

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