Why do elephants bury themselves after they die?

Many animals walk far away and bury themselves when they are close to death, most notably elephants.

Recent studies in environmental ecology and public health have explained that elephants or other animals bury themselves or are buried by their peers in order to reduce the spread of germs and diseases between groups, because even burying or covering the carcass with shallow soil can greatly reduce the decay of the carcass and the chance of fly-borne disease.

Other, less well-known facts, some animals use unique substances in the environment to create better public health conditions for the group after their own death, so that the whole group can live a healthy life.

Bees, like humans, like to "die at the end of their lives", that is, die in their nests. It is a well-known fact that if animals are not treated after death, the carcass will decompose and grow with germs, causing other companions to become sick and die. In fact, despite the fact that many bees die in the hive every day, we have never seen the decay of dead bees or the outbreak of large-scale infectious diseases among bees.

The reason is that when bees die, they wrap themselves in the beeswax they produce. It's like humans making mummies, with a layer of excellent embalming applied to the outside of the corpse to prevent the corpse from decomposing and spreading germs to other bees. It can be seen that the ability and knowledge of animals to protect the environment and maintain public health are much stronger than those of humans.

These seemingly innate behaviors of animals should be formed slowly in the competition for survival. The lesson we humans have learned from this is that only by paying attention to public health can human beings gain an advantage in the competition for their own survival and make their groups endless.

Because I'm afraid that the zookeepers will be tired.

When an elderly elephant senses that the time of death is near, it moves away from the herd and walks alone to a secret place, the grave of their ancestors and relatives. After finding a place, he will use the last bit of strength left in his body to dig a hole for himself and lie down in it. Finally, he buried himself with his own nose and slowly faced the coming of death.

When an elderly elephant senses that the time of death is near, it moves away from the herd and walks alone to a secret place, the grave of their ancestors and relatives. After finding a place, he will use the last bit of strength left in his body to dig a hole for himself and lie down in it. Finally, he buried himself with his own nose and slowly faced the coming of death.

Because elephants have a special ability to sense death, once the deadline is approaching, they will take care of the aftermath on their own and not cause trouble to their companions. For hundreds of years, there have been similar legends wherever elephants have been active. Despite their large bodies, elephants have never seen the carcasses of wild elephants.

A chieftain in Kenya gets lost during a hunt and has no intention of walking into a cave full of bones. Judging by the size and shape of the skeleton, it should be an elephant. He also saw an elephant staggering in and lying dead on the ground.

Two explorers from the former Soviet Union followed the chief's instructions to search for the cave and found the cave filled with animal bones.

Some zoologists have witnessed the funeral of elephants, and this has also been specially reported in the animal world. The herd stands in a circle around their dead companions, then digs deep pits with their tusks and buries the bodies with their trunks rolled up with stones. In our culture, death is always taboo.

Even when it comes to this word, it has to be replaced by another word.

Immortals died, passed away, and returned to the ...... with the craneAnd "death" only appears in swearing. It's as if you can escape death in this way. But everyone knows that no matter how you escape, death is always something that everyone can't avoid.

Don't shy away from it, don't panic, and experience it as a necessary process in life. Learn from elephants, die

Like all other necessary experiences in life, it brings pain, but it also allows people to grow, learn to cherish and learn to love.

The burials were all young or female, and male elephants with long and precious tusks were never found. Could it be that elephants also know the preciousness of their tusks, something we humans love?

It's not that you know how long you live, but you can feel that you're dying, and other animals feel it.

I feel that each species has its own "superpowers" and understands different things, just like the loxonas.

It's not very clear, it should have something to do with their body structure, and they can generally have a premonition of their death.

It may be because the elephant itself has the ability to predict its own lifespan, and the ability in animals is still amazing.

We don't know much about that, because we're not elephants after all. Maybe they really feel that they can't do it anymore, and then go to their own family tomb to make a group of efforts.

There are many existences in this world that we ordinary people can't touch, and the ability exists, because I have seen it with my own eyes, and prophecy is also a kind of ability

I still have this ability, I feel that I can't keep up with the pace of other elephants, and I feel that my strength is much smaller than that of other elephants, so I will have a hunch.

It is said that when an elderly elephant senses that the time of death is approaching, it will move away from the herd and walk alone to a secret place, which is the grave of their ancestors and relatives. When it arrived, it used its last strength to clear a place for itself with its nose and dig a hole, and it lay down in it, and then buried itself with earth, and slowly died. The tusks in the elephant tomb are small and the elephant bones are like mountains, but no one can find the road to the elephant tomb.

Other zoologists believe that elephants went to the pond area before their death and fell into the depths of the pond after death, so people could not see their carcasses. At present, various speculations are not entirely convincing, and where the wild elephant died of old age, and how it is known, is indeed a puzzling natural mystery.

In fact, there is no clear answer to this question now. But scientists do find that when elephants die, they quietly leave the herd, and there are usually many tusks and other items in the place where the elephant falls. It's not surprising that elephants know they're going to die.

Whatever the reason for this, this practice of elephants must be directly or indirectly beneficial to the population. There is a behavior in zoology called "altruistic behavior". It's about doing something that's good for other animals.

Of course, all this is speculation, and this behavior of elephants remains to be studied.

Elephants have a habit that they know they are going to die when the time comes, and they go to a big cemetery by themselves, and many elephants go to that place when they die.

Elephants have a mysterious cemetery, and when the time is approaching, they will go to that cemetery by themselves to wait for death to come, as for how they find that place, it is a mystery, probably the guidance of the earth's magnetic field.

A photographer once documented the entire process of African elephants from death to disappearance, and herds of hyenas, vultures, jackals and other scavengers ate them all.

Yes, there is a similar record in ancient Chinese texts, where elephants took a hunter to a place and took a lot of ivory in return for their kindness. Later, when the man went again, he could not find it.

I've read a book, Book Cube: The Mystery of Earth. When the elephants are dying, it seems that they all gather in one place. Someone found it all ivory. That's all I remember

There is a saying about elephant graveyards, and when elephants feel like they are dying, they go to a very secret place to die. Some people claim to have seen it, and it was full of elephant bones. But when I went to look for it, I couldn't find it. It is possible that it is a legend.

It is said that a large number of animal bones and tusks were found in a cave a few decades ago, and many people tried to find elephant burial grounds, and few elephant bones were found in the wild. As for your question, there is also a great deal of debate in the academic community at the moment.

Hell, because elephants are too heavy.