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Asian elephants loudly mourn and bury their dead calves, according to a study by Indian scientists that details animal behaviour reminiscent of human funeral rites.
"Through opportunistic observation, digital photography, fieldnotes, and postmortem examination reports, we suggest that the carcasses were buried in an abnormal recumbent style irrespective of the reasons for the calf's death," the study said.In one instance the herd loudly roared and trumpeted around the buried calf, the authors wrote.
Authors Parveen Kaswan and Akashdeep Roy said their research found"no direct human intervention" in any of the five calf deaths. The elephants buried the calves in irrigation canals on tea estates, hundreds of meters away from the nearest human settlements.Elephants are known for their social and cooperative behaviour but calf burial had previously only been"briefly studied" in African elephants – remaining unexplored among their smaller Asian cousins, the study said.
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