Elephants are known for being wildly intelligent and incredibly social. They’re also one of the few animals — aside from humans — that grieve for their dead. They form tight social bonds with their ...

Elephants have long unsettled and fascinated observers with what looks uncannily like a funeral rite, lingering over carcasses, touching bones and even covering bodies with soil and branches. For ...

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

The 44-second video shared by Indian Forest Services (IFS) officer Parveen Kaswan shows a mother elephant unable to ...

We all know that many animals grieve the loss of family and friends. Here's a wonderful acknowledgment of broken-hearted elephants mourning the loss of their human friend, Lawrence Anthony, author of ...

The clip, filmed in an Indian forest, captures a mother elephant grappling with the death of her calf, an image so raw that it has left viewers across the internet shaken. A video of a grieving mother ...

A video is currently going viral, but not for the usual reasons. It is not funny, dramatic, or shocking in a typical way.