Elephant Graveyards?

Question

Do elephants go to a special place to die? If not, what started this myth?

Answer 1

Elephant Graveyards,there are none in the wild. Because after an Elephant dies and his body turns to bones other Elephants will pick up the bones and carry them off. Elephants won't allow each others bones to sit and rot altogether , they pick them up and carry them away.

Answer 2

Actually, in the early days of African and Indian exploration by Europeans, the absence of elephant carcasses led to the idea that elephants went to a special place at death. It has never been found and therefore probably doesn't exist.

My theory is that the elephant, being ecologically conscious, has his or her remains cremated.

Answer 3

actually there are not elephant graveyards but rather elephant mourn sites. It has been found that elephants have a wide range of emotions, like humans whan one of their own die or is killed the elephants in that grup surrond the carcass and hold their head sdown as if crying.

Answer 4

Well in the wild elephants actually do have cremony's and cover the dead with leaves and rub their trunks all over the body. Year after year the visit the bones and never forget them.
Humans don't have cemetaries for elephants because they're too big to bury.

Answer 5

Back in Ancient Egypt they mummified animals, but then again I don't think elephants were in Ancient Egypt at the time.

Answer 6

i dont know where there buried but they prabably arent