Touching the scene of the farewell elephant

American amateur photographer John Chaney was lucky to "grab" the moment a female elephant expressed his grief over his late friend, lying down on the road.

Mr. Chaney recorded a rare and touching scene on a trip with his wife in Botswana. While visiting the Botswana National Nature Reserve, they caught the body of a dead male elephant collapsed on the road, with about 20 vultures and 10 hyenas surrounded.

The female elephant stood still beside the corpse of the male elephant for several hours.(Photo: Daily Mail)

When the tour guide called the reserve staff to come and get the ivory to avoid them falling into the hands of poachers, another elephant came to the dead body. The female elephant scares the animals around her body, before gently using the elephant's tusse roll and standing still without leaving her position for several minutes.

The couple Chaney and other tourists continued the tour, and when they returned 2 - 3 hours later, they were stunned to find that the female elephant still held the same position as before. leave.

Although the action of the female elephant is quite strange, according to experts , elephants are animals that have a habit of expressing mourning for the dead type. For example, when a herd of elephants walks through the skeleton of a dead elephant, they will touch the skeleton with the tap.