{"id":6501,"date":"2024-11-05T22:25:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T22:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2024-11-05T22:25:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T22:25:49","slug":"weeping-elephants-mourn-a-lost-baby-in-a-funeral-march-like-humans-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=6501","title":{"rendered":"Weeping elephants mourn a lost baby in a funeral march like humans\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.viral-stories.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AFT-177.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Parveen Kaswan, a forest ranger in the Indian Foreign Service, posted a video of Indian elephants performing a human-like funeral service for a baby elephant last Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.viral-stories.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/A1-47.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23196\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kawan\u2019s video has gone viral as stunned social media users flocked to express their amazement and sympathy for the elephants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The footage, posted on Twitter, shows an elephant emerge from some bushes holding the body of a dead baby elephant in its trunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2021\/05\/05205745\/elephants.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The adult elephant laid its body down and guarded it as it waited for more elephants to join. Walking in a line like a funeral procession, more elephants arrived and surrounded the baby elephant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original elephant then lifted the baby once more, other elephants following behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Twitter post garnered more than 5,000 re-tweets and over 12,000 likes on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elephants have previously been observed grieving their dead, not unlike how humans have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/09\/05224648\/elephant-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We found this display touching. What about you? Let us know how this video makes you feel in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parveen Kaswan, a forest ranger in the Indian Foreign Service, posted a video of Indian elephants performing a human-like funeral service for a baby elephant last Friday&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6502,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions\/6502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}