Is there truly an elephants graveyard?

Question

Is there truly an elephants graveyard?

Answer 1

you must be a kid

no  

Answer 2

Not really. Elephants die where they stand  and their relatives will sometimes cover the body with branches or grass and stand watch over the body for a few days chasing away scavengers. After a few days the herd will move on but will revisit the spot from time to time. Some pretty amazing videos of elephants touching and smelling the bones suggest they are remembering their herd-mate.

I think the "graveyard" stories started from mass burials of elephants in prehistoric times being found. These mass burials were usually from flash-floods but possibly from disease epidemics as well. It is also possible that these stories arose from natural "traps" into which elephants may have fallen on a regular basis. After falling in, these elephants eventually died from starvation or thirst but their remains were concentrated into a small area and found later by people who were ignorant of the nature of the trap. Most African tribes have no such stories of elephant grave-yards. White hunters in the early twentieth century created the stories when they found these collections of bodies.

At least that's what I think

Answer 3

I thought there was and I am not a kid.

Scientists ruled out the existence of the graveyards long ago,

This is what does happon though.

"Elephants are very unusual. Even if they find an elephant that is long dead, one where the hyenas have taken the stomach out, or even remains where the bones are scattered, they get tense and excited," said Dr McComb. "They often walk in a tight group up to the carcass. They hold their ears slightly out, their heads up and become tense," she said. "They touch the carcass quite extensively with their trunks and smell it with a hovering motion. In the case of ivory they will wrap their trunks around it and carry it around." SO forth and so on. . .

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Answer 4

hahaha real funny

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant's_...