Articles for tag: animal emotions, elephant behavior, elephant intelligence, mourning in animals, wildlife empathy

gray elephant playing with mud

Elephants That Mourn Their Dead

Suhail Ahmed

Under a merciless sun, a family of elephants gathers quietly around a fallen elder, touching the body with careful trunks as if reading a final story written in scent and skin. For decades, scientists called scenes like this mysterious, even anecdotal; now, a new wave of research is piecing together the evidence with rigor. Elephant ...