Where are elephants buried when they die? Where do elephants go when they die?

There has been a legend since ancient times that elephants must run to their secret graveyard to meet the end of the world before they die. About half a century ago, an expedition discovered a cave with piles of ivory and bone while in the jungle of Africa.

The news caused a sensation around the world, and many people thought that the cave was a burial ground for elephants. In order to obtain the most expensive ivory, in Africa, the heavenly kingdom of wild elephants, people often go deep into the dense forests to explore and look for elephant burial sites. According to the chief of an indigenous tribe in Africa, he once got lost on a hunting trip, found a large cave full of bones, and saw an elephant walk in and die there.

It was like a burial ground for elephants, but then some people followed the route he pointed out to look for it, but found nothing. Wild elephants generally die of natural age, but in the dense forest, people can not find their carcasses, and the remains of elephants are rarely found. Some scientists believe that elephants may have been confined to a certain place to end their lives.

But they can't explain why the elephants died together. And how did it find the cemetery before it died? There are also zoologists who believe that dead elephants were buried en masse by herds.

However, years of observation have rejected this view. Fact: Elephants on the verge of death will consciously leave the herd. Hence the existence of elephant cemeteries.

Elephants choose their own burial grounds before they die, usually deep in the mountains, and will not be discovered by humans. Because humans love its long teeth too much.

When the elephant foresees that he is about to dieWill go to the elephant cemetery, or die on the way to Li Sui's limbs. According to scientists, elephants are very intelligent, they have a special skill, that is, they can meet their own life and death, if the elephant feels that it will not be long before they die, they will leave the herd, and then walk alone to a mysterious place, which is their cemetery.

People have tried many ways to track elephants, everyone wants to know where they end up, some poachers will follow the elephants in order to get more tusks, but they will eventually be dumped, so no one knows where they end up so far.

Because the size of elephants is too large, carnivorous animals in nature will keep an eye on them all the time, and when they find an elephant that is about to die or has died, they will definitely not let go of such a big meal, so the dead elephants are basically shared by carnivores, which is why their carcasses are rarely seen in the wild.

Elephants are social

Elephants have a very long lifespan, generally live to about 70 years old, they are typical social social animals, family activities, most of the social animals are led by adult males, but the elephant herd is the female elephant as the leader of which life, the daily activity time, foraging places, action routes, and habitats are subject to the command of the female elephant, and the adult male elephant only bears the responsibility of protecting family members.

The communication between elephants can be transmitted through infrasound waves, in the absence of external force interference, can generally travel 11 kilometers, they stomp their feet to obtain the response of their companions, the elephant's bones can play a role in conduction, when the sound waves arrive, the sound waves will be transmitted along the soles of the feet through the bones to the inner ears, which other animals can not do.

Anthropologists have observed elephants burying their dead counterparts with plenty of food, fruits, flowers, and colorful leaves.

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.