Elephants really do grieve like us: They shed tears and even try to 'bury' their dead - a leading wildlife film- maker reveals how the animals are like us. By. James Honeyborne. Published. 0. 0: 0. GMT, 3. 1 January 2. GMT, 3. 1 January 2.

The pictures of a baby elephant in Borneo, nudging and nuzzling the body of its dead mother in obvious distress and bewilderment, cannot fail to move us. Allegations that up to ten pygmy elephants were poisoned, perhaps by local farmers, are upsetting — perhaps because elephant emotions seem so like our own, so heartbreakingly close to human sorrow and grief. Any scientist knows how dangerous it is to project human feelings on to an animal, to force them into human moulds or ‘anthropomorphise’ them, but it’s equally dangerous to ignore a wealth of scientific data based on decades of observation in the wild. Heart- rendering: An African elephant mother mourns her calf, a victim of the three consecutive years of drought in East Africa. We may never know exactly what goes on inside the mind of an elephant, but it would be arrogant of us to assume we are the only species capable of feeling loss and grief.

I have been filming animals in the wild for more than 2. But mass poaching has put them into terrible decline — around 4. Sixties the population has been culled from 3. I am certain that the behaviour I have witnessed so often stems from real emotion. Understanding it is the biggest challenge for a wildlife cameraman. We have to get inside the heads of the animals, see how they are reacting and predict what they will do next, or we won’t get the shots we need. Perhaps the most dramatic and emotional sequence happened in our current BBC1 series, Africa, narrated by David Attenborough.

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We filmed an elephant mother’s desperate attempts to keep her calf alive during the worst drought in 5. Kenya. These animals were not dying of thirst: they were starving. Some volcanic springs were still flowing, so the animals could get water; what they couldn’t get were nutrients.

A three- month- old Borneo pygmy elephant calf tries to awake its dead mother at the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve in Sabah, Malaysia. By that time, the drought was well into its second year and mother and baby were trying to survive on dry twigs. There was no hay in Kenya, there was a sense of utter helplessness, and we felt the most important thing was to document what was happening. Cameraman Mark Deeble had been following the family for days. He saw that the mother stayed with her baby and felt she was distressed, trying to lift up the dead body and move it with her feet, before standing over the prone calf for about an hour, seeming to come to terms with the situation. Whether you were actually there or watching events unfold on the screen, it was impossible to keep your emotions separate from what you were seeing.

The mother’s bereavement transmitted itself so strongly. Watch I Jomfruens Tegn Online Movies24free. In a more benign environment, an elephant might mourn for longer.

I have heard of animals staying beside the bodies of dead friends for three days and nights, refusing to move. This mother didn’t do that, possibly because she had been exposed to a lot of death around her. Fifteen thousand head of game died in that reserve during the drought.

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More than 4. 00 elephants perished, including 6. It was a terrible time for that population, and I think death had become familiar to them. You could draw a parallel with humans in wartime. The mother had to move on for her own survival. Grieving: A wildlife department official tries to make the bereaved baby elephant in Gunung Rara drink water as if refuses to leave its dead mother's body. We couldn’t save her baby, but we felt it was essential to put its death in context: Africa is infamous for its droughts and famines, and yet we very rarely see how seriously that affects its wildlife.

Scientists have observed extraordinary displays of emotion from elephants. When one tame animal called Abu died at a safari outfit in Botswana, his keepers brought the other elephants to say ‘goodbye’.

One female, Cathy, was seen crying from both eyes, tears streaming down her face. That doesn’t mean elephants know what death is. They can’t anticipate death in the way we can or imagine it as an abstract concept. Their grief is different: it’s simply about loss. Dr Kate Evans, of the Elephants For Africa research foundation, has told me that on several occasions she has watched grieving elephants exhibit almost a sense of puzzlement. They pick up, hold and examine bones, balancing a jawbone on their tusks or putting it in their mouths, as if they are saying to their dead friend: ‘Is that you?’Perhaps the discredited myth of the elephant’s graveyard, a secret place where the animals supposedly went to die, had its origins in the fact that elephants interact with their dead.

Dr Evans has observed mourning among wild elephants that she knew well. On one occasion, a young bull came across three skulls.

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He ignored the first two, but paid particular attention to the third skull, from an elephant he had been friendly with. In Kate’s words, he seemed to know who the skull belonged to. Not so different: Elephants feel like we do, says wildlife film- maker James Honeyborne. Another time, a matriarch collapsed and died in the bush. Over the next three weeks, several lone males visited her body and spent time by her side. Back in the Forties, George Adamson. Joy, was the inspiration for the film.

Born Free) recalled how he once had to shoot a bull elephant from a. Kenya. Adamson. gave the elephant’s meat to the local Turkana tribesmen and then. That night, other. According. to Charlie Mayhew, of the Tusk Trust, elephants will ‘bury’ their dead. We. cannot guess the precise meaning of that, but it’s clear that elephants. They. recognise each other and, of course, they have marvellous memories. When. one animal dies, they will each need to assess how their social group.

The whole dynamic changes, and they need to know where they fit in. Those are. not the only emotions they display. If you look at an elephant calf. In another episode of the Africa series, we showed a young bull elephant in ‘must’ or on heat — he was throwing his weight around, clearly in a heightened emotional state. We called it a ‘sexual fury’. Elephants in zoos have reportedly shown symptoms of depression.

The first African elephant to be taken to London Zoo, in the 1. Jumbo, and he posed problems for his keepers, who tried to keep him happy and amused. For humans, the most complex and important emotion is love, and we describe it in a multitude of ways.

The powerful bond between a mother elephant and her calf is an easy one for us to understand. But unlike humans, elephants don’t seem to have any notion of romantic love. You don’t get courting elephants — when they mate, it can be a pretty brief encounter. Their society is a very female- based hierarchy, and the loyalty that a herd shows to a matriarch is intensely strong. Watch Dance Camp Streaming.

They will follow her wherever she goes: perhaps that is a manifestation of love of a different sort. Emotion requires communication, and the vocalisations of elephants are incredibly sophisticated. They operate on some sound frequencies we can hear — trumpeting and grumbling — and others that we can’t.

Much of their long- distance communication occurs through vibrations that are inaudible to us. Low- frequency (or infrasonic) sounds are transmitted constantly, a deep rumble somewhere between  1. Hertz. The normal human range of hearing is between 2. Hz and 2. 0,0. 00.