Elephants never forget their dead

“Today, in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, the first hard evidence is published of how elephants, like humans, attach great importance to the dead, feeling moved to touch them with their trunks and feet, and often revisiting carcasses. The study by Karen McComb and Lucy Baker of Sussex University and Cynthia Moss of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants adds to the mountain of evidence to show that humans have far fewer unique characteristics than once thought.” – Telegraph