Out of all these, however, perhaps elephants resemble a humans mourning patterns most closely.
They have been documentedstroking the bonesof the deceased,guardingcarcasses,buryingdead calves, and evencrying.
Though ignoring the remains or bones of other species, elephants almost always react to those of their own.
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For a whole week, elephants from five different families visited Eleanors corpse.
Another account details how a researcher once hid a speaker in a thicket.
In vain, they attempted to search for the dead elephant, and its daughter called for days afterward.
The experiment was never repeated by the researcher again.
