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An elephant skull in Tanzania. An elephants' graveyard (also called elephant graveyard, elephant's graveyard, or elephants' cemetery) is a place where, according to legend, old elephants instinctively direct themselves when they reach a certain age. [1] According to this legend, these elephants would then die there alone, far from the group.
Elephants show a remarkable ability to use tools, using their trunks like arms. Elephants have been observed digging holes to drink water and then ripping bark from a tree, chewing it into the shape of a ball, filling in the hole and covering over it with sand to avoid evaporation, then later going
Researchers in India have for the first time documented how Asian elephants bury dead calves.
When encountering dead animals, elephants will often bury them with mud, earth and leaves. Animals known to have been buried by elephants include rhinos, buffalos, cows, calves, and even humans, in addition to elephants themselves. Elephants have [been] observed burying their dead with large quantities of food, fruit, flowers and colourful foliage.
Conservationists at a zoo are mourning the loss of two "eagerly anticipated" baby elephants. Blackpool Zoo said a three-day-old Asian elephant calf died on 7 November after contracting an ...
35 elephants suddenly dropped dead in 2020, and no one could explain why, yet these new findings may just be the answer ... Their populations are thought to have diminished by 144,000 between 2007 ...
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In Siam, elephants were trained to throw the condemned into the air before trampling them to death. [1] There exists an account in the 1560s of men being trampled to death by elephants in Ayutthaya due to their unruly behaviour. [6] Alexander Hamilton provides the following account from Siam: [7] For Treason and Murder, the Elephant is the ...