Elephants intuiting a human friend's death !

[Ajay0]

I recently came across an interesting story of a South African conservationist named Lawrence Anthony. He was known for his conservatory work amongst elephants.

 

It is said that just after Lawrence's death in his house, a group of elephants marched their way to his house for 12 hours, and hung around for two days before making their way to the bush.

 

https://protectallwildlifeblog.com/2021/08/01/when-the-elephants-came-to-mourn-the-elephant-whisperer/

 

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” For two days the herds loitered at Anthony’s rural compound on the vast Thula Thula game reserve in the South African KwaZulu — to say good-bye to the man they loved. But how did they know he had died?

 

 

Imho, I think , considering this case study, animals are somehow capable of intuiting the state of close friends and responding accordingly. 

[Nungali]

Indeed . Down the south coast from here  Orcas used to help whalers heard the whales in. The head orca 'Old Tom'  developed a good relation ship with the head whaler , when this Captain died , he was rowed over to an island for the funeral and buried . Old Tom turned up and stayed off shore until the grave was filled, and then swum off . One wonders how Old Tom could tell from watching at water level .

 

Unfortunately the new Captain had no taste for such relationships  so Tom pulled the plug on helping them and the whaler orca relationship began to decline .

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_New_South_Wales

 

Edited June 1 by Nungali

[Ajay0]

On 6/2/2024 at 4:39 AM, Nungali said:

Indeed . Down the south coast from here  Orcas used to help whalers heard the whales in. The head orca 'Old Tom'  developed a good relation ship with the head whaler , when this Captain died , he was rowed over to an island for the funeral and buried . Old Tom turned up and stayed off shore until the grave was filled, and then swum off . One wonders how Old Tom could tell from watching at water level .

 

Unfortunately the new Captain had no taste for such relationships  so Tom pulled the plug on helping them and the whaler orca relationship began to decline .

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_New_South_Wales

 

 

Thank you for the interesting input.