Masson & McCarthy, “Grief, Sadness, and the Bones of Elephants”

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/elephant_african_mourning

Above is a link to a short video. It concerns the mourning habits of elephants when it comes to there dead. In Masson and McCarthy they say it has to do with elephants ability to recognize the features of others. The ritual they describe is shown in the video. The elephants will turn the bones over and over tracing the contours of the face seeming to recognize the skull or bone. They will even carry them from time to time for miles.