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Elephants mourn their dead.
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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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Is it true that elephants mourn their dead?
Unclear. Several popular books and one peer-reviewed paper assert in passing that elephants mourn their dead, but none of the placed items presents observational evidence or analysis of the behavior itself.
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Mary, B. (2015). Love heals baby elephants : rebirthing ivory orphans. archive.org. https://archive.org/details/lovehealsbabyele0000baur
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Hand, C. (2016). 12 Super-Smart Animals You Need to Know. archive.org. https://archive.org/details/12supersmartanim0000caro
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Staff, H. M. H. (2016). Journeys: Close Reader Grade 6. archive.org. https://archive.org/details/journeyscloserea0000houg
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Ubuntu in Elephant Communities. (n.d.). cambridge.org. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/5070FD32516197A1A3371652B104AD5B/S2053447723000246a.pdf/div-class-title-ubuntu-in-elephant-communities-div.pdf
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Unified Computational Intelligence in Social Science. (2010). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03180-9_7
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