“The myth of the elephants’ graveyard is one of the most enduring in natural history. Although large collections of elephant remains in one place seemed to support the idea that elephants go to a specific site to die, that idea has been disproved. “The bones have other explanations,” says Dr Karen McComb, of the University of Sussex, “such as mass die-offs because of disease.”" - Guardian.co.uk

“Elephants, on the other hand, have been reported to “become excited and agitated if they come across a dead elephant,” said Karen McComb, an expert on animal communication and cognition at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.” - National Geographic News

“Today, in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, the first hard evidence is published of how elephants, like humans, attach great importance to the dead, feeling moved to touch them with their trunks and feet, and often revisiting carcasses. The study by Karen McComb and Lucy Baker of Sussex University and Cynthia Moss of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants adds to the mountain of evidence to show that humans have far fewer unique characteristics than once thought.” - Telegraph