Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
We’ve long heard tales of an elephant graveyard – a secret place that aged elephants seek out to die… but is there any chance it could be real? No one has ever found one, but according experts on elephant behavior, it’s not unthinkable that such a place could exist.
For the elephant graveyard to exist, first we would need to establish that elephants instinctively know when their time is near. That way they could separate themselves from the herd with enough time to journey to the graveyard before their death – but are they capable of such a thing?
Scholar Karen Harris says older elephants could instinctively wander away from the herd, but probably not because they have a sense of impending death – they need softer, more easily digestible food, and so might venture out on their own…
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