Soon after, other elephants appeared, joining the adult elephant in grieving.
The video went viral soon after being posted, and here’s what some viewers commented.
“This is heart-rending. There’s a lot that humans can learn from animals” while the other tweeted, “Omg!!! First time I hava seen such video.. Really very touching.”
“Heart Touching Beautiful Words Given to the above Video. Funeral Procession.”
“Very Disturbing . The Pain is seen in Every Elephant in the procession.”
“What a family ! Paying their last rite with full respect.”
“Heart touching, Elephant is sensitive … emotional…in one vedio I saw Elephants are touching skeleton of dead elephant…”
The video can be seen here:
This will move you !! Funeral procession of the weeping elephants carrying dead body of the child elephant. The family just don’t want to leave the baby. pic.twitter.com/KO4s4wCpl0
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) June 7, 2019