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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
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