Elephant calves have been found buried – what does that mean?

By Lucy A. Bates, Senior Lecturer in Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, University of Portsmouth
Leanne Proops, Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, University of Portsmouth

The myth of elephant graveyards has pervaded popular culture, and recent observations of buried Asian elephant calves may finally give that legend some credence.

In the research published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa, two scientists describe five instances where elephant calves have been found buried in a legs-upright position within irrigation trenches of tea plantations in northern Bengal,…

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