"Elephants returning to a matriarchal group are greeted with ceremonial embraces, entwinings of trunks and colossal snorts of pleasure. Coming across the bones of their dead, they will salute them, lightly touching the skulls and tusks with their trunks. They have been known to bury dead family members, covering them in earth and brightly coloured leaves, working together, surrounding the corpse with fruit and flowers."
from 'The Golden Mole', by Katherine Rundell #Books#Nature#Elephants
