ELEPHANTS never forget. And it seems they may even pay homage to the bones of dead relatives.
Very few species show an interest in their dead. Exceptions are chimpanzees, which exhibit prolonged and complex behaviour towards a dead social partner, but abandon them once the carcass begins to decompose, and lions, which might sniff or lick a dead member of their own species before devouring it.
Karen McComb and her colleagues at the University of Sussex in the UK presented 17 families of African elephants in Amboseli National Park in Kenya with skulls from an elephant, a buffalo and a…
