A Memory of Elephants and My Dying Friend

I'm part of a herd, and we will carry him

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Elephants have elaborate grieving rituals, I remembered today. Not out of the blue. I had death on my mind because of an ill friend on hospice. I know about elephants from my life in Cambodia. I was on occasion around them at the Angkor Wat temples and also in Phnom Penh.

Elephants mourn, bury their dead, and use their trunks t…