How Do Elephants Mourn Death at Alica Hamilton blog

How Do Elephants Mourn Death. Juvenile elephants used their tusks to gently nudge a dead body in two instances. Asian elephants, like their african cousins, seem to mourn their dead, sometimes even carrying their lost infants in their trunks for days or weeks, new research finds. In 21 cases there was some sort of touching. In september 2018, near the indian city of tumkur, villagers recorded a beleaguered asian. Two weeks after the death of their matriarch, victoria, wild elephants in samburu national reserve. Researchers had long heard stories about asian elephants seemingly mourning their dead—and had even witnessed these behaviors in the wild a handful of times. She had died of natural cause several weeks before, surrounded by family; A wild herd stumble across an elephant carcass and ceremoniously touch the bones, as if. The footage, taken by researcher shifra goldenberg at kenya’s sumburu national reserve in 2013, shows several elephants standing over the remains of an old female named victoria. The elephants in the video, though, weren’t related to her.

A wild herd stumble across an elephant carcass and ceremoniously touch the bones, as if. Juvenile elephants used their tusks to gently nudge a dead body in two instances. In september 2018, near the indian city of tumkur, villagers recorded a beleaguered asian. The footage, taken by researcher shifra goldenberg at kenya’s sumburu national reserve in 2013, shows several elephants standing over the remains of an old female named victoria. Two weeks after the death of their matriarch, victoria, wild elephants in samburu national reserve. She had died of natural cause several weeks before, surrounded by family; Researchers had long heard stories about asian elephants seemingly mourning their dead—and had even witnessed these behaviors in the wild a handful of times. In 21 cases there was some sort of touching. Asian elephants, like their african cousins, seem to mourn their dead, sometimes even carrying their lost infants in their trunks for days or weeks, new research finds. The elephants in the video, though, weren’t related to her.

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How Do Elephants Mourn Death A wild herd stumble across an elephant carcass and ceremoniously touch the bones, as if. The elephants in the video, though, weren’t related to her. Juvenile elephants used their tusks to gently nudge a dead body in two instances. Two weeks after the death of their matriarch, victoria, wild elephants in samburu national reserve. She had died of natural cause several weeks before, surrounded by family; Asian elephants, like their african cousins, seem to mourn their dead, sometimes even carrying their lost infants in their trunks for days or weeks, new research finds. A wild herd stumble across an elephant carcass and ceremoniously touch the bones, as if. In 21 cases there was some sort of touching. In september 2018, near the indian city of tumkur, villagers recorded a beleaguered asian. The footage, taken by researcher shifra goldenberg at kenya’s sumburu national reserve in 2013, shows several elephants standing over the remains of an old female named victoria. Researchers had long heard stories about asian elephants seemingly mourning their dead—and had even witnessed these behaviors in the wild a handful of times.