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Elephants Come Back Every Year to the Same Place, Stop, Touch the Ground with Their Trunks and Go Back in Silence: Researchers Took Decades to Understand What They Were Doing There

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For decades, researchers have observed elephants returning to the same place each year to touch the ground with their trompe in silence. A revolutionary study has finally shown that they are visiting their dead. Elephants have a relationship to the mourning of remarkable cognitive sophistication, sometimes burying their young even after 48 hours of travel. More
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For decades, researchers have observed elephants returning to the same place each year to touch the ground with their trompe in silence. A revolutionary study has finally shown that they are visiting their dead. Elephants have a relationship to the mourning of remarkable cognitive sophistication, sometimes burying their young even after 48 hours of travel. More

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SciencePost broke the news on Thursday, May 21, 2026.
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