The Elephants Graveyard - myth or reality?

Answer 1

Reality??? Maybe Myth??? I don't even know what it is?

Answer 2

According to popular myth, older elephants instinctively leave their group when they reach a certain age, and direct themselves toward a special area, known as the elephants' graveyard. They then die there alone, far from the group.

According to a hypothesis devised by Rupert Sheldrake, this myth is actually half true. The legend arose from the fact that elephant skeletons are, in fact, frequently found in groups near permanent sources of water. Elephants suffering from malnutrition instinctively, says Sheldrake, seek out sources of water in the hopes of improving their condition. The elephants that do not improve develop increasingly low blood sugar and eventually become comatose and die, near the water (and to the remains of other malnourished elephants).

Today it is used as a metaphor for any place, position, or station in life where one has basically reached the end, i.e., "out to pasture", "end of the line", "last roundup", etc.

Answer 3

all myths have a basis in reality. Each grain of truth accumilates "layers" of lies to it. It's a lot like how a pearl is made. So the older a myth is, the more crap is added to the actual grain of truth. So I think that maybe some elephant remains were found in the same general area around a waterhole, and the myth arose from that. :)

Answer 4

The link below has a short and interesting answer that is a bit different than just "myth". It rather shows how most myths have some basis in reality.

Answer 5

According to the Lion King its reality. According to Reality its a myth. According to myth its a legend. According to legend its the Lion King so that I guess would be the circle of life.

Answer 6

hi
elephants ,where they live,need as mammal to have salt,
one place for salt is the ancient collections below a layer of rocks(that is called cave) ,elephants go in groups to there..when saltt decrease in the walls,they start scratching roof,,,,later on with a group of elephants ,they may die toghtere
Also ,usually elephants die in every where,so from time to time one dies in the cave,,after thousands of years...so many bones are collected there giving empression as a graveyard..
that is one
2nd in the higher latitudes,around Russia,so many meters of ice covered the earth surface ,and so many Mamooths were burried
in the deep wide holes there,so may be after tousands of years ,after ice had been melted,bones discovered and the plases considered as Graveyard..
welcome

Answer 7

What elephant graveyard?

Answer 8

myth

Answer 9

myth

Answer 10

not seen it but lets face it they all went somewhere to die maybe it's near the whale's graveyard.