Piercing! Herd of elephants bid farewell to their deceased leader.
The moving scene was recorded on video by some locals, who could not believe their eyes. The unusual material already has thousands of views on YouTube
Various studies indicate that elephants are capable of exhibiting a complex range of feelings just like a human. It is about the unusual scene starring a herd of elephants that bids their leader farewell in a solemn way.
The video, recorded on the shores of a lake located in Sri Lanka, that allows us to appreciate the moment in which several members of the herd go to the body of the deceased elephant to surround it and pay a kind of tribute to it, remaining silent for several seconds.
According to news outlet, the deceased specimen would have confronted the leader of another group. Unfortunately, the injuries he sustained ended up being fatal.
The clip quickly became viral and generated all kinds of comments among netizens on the YouTube portal, who were moved by the heartbreaking scene that has so far more than thousand views.
It caused a stir among YouTube Internet users that, at a certain point in the filming, a baby elephant approaches its deceased leader to caress him with his trunk.
These animals are known to spend hours or days at the site of a herd member's death. If they leave and come back, the elephants will stop at the same place as a show of respect to the deceased.
