National Geographic:
Queen Victoria, one of the last surviving old matriarchs in the Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya, died of natural causes in 2013, with her family members close by.
Victoria headed an elephant group known on the Samburu Reserve as the Royal family, a group of about 20 elephants all named after kings, queens, and other royalty around the world.
(this) 15-minute video of the elephants’ investigation, made available exclusively to National Geographic for the first time, is an important new addition to the growing body of research about the complexity of elephant thought and perception and their responses to death. The video not only captures an important ritual of elephant behavior, but reveals new insights about the strength of social bonds.
Sad but remarkable video. I don’t know if the elephants are grieving in the human sense but they are certainly acknowledging the passing of their matriarch.
It turns out that, after decades of legitimate study, many of the behaviors we’ve traditionally thought of as unique to humans are actually not unique to us at all. Family relationships, loss-coping mechanisms, and affection are all survival traits we share with many other species.
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yup. I suspect the previous world view was based on the egotistical notion that as “god’s children” humans were unlike dirty animals in every way. ah no.
Indeed. It’s taken science a long time to swap out those rose-colored glasses, but we’re getting better.