Who heard about this story back in 2012

[Thuganomics]

How did they know of his death

In case you needed another reason to care about wildlife, here’s one: If you devote your life to elephants, they might come to your funeral. Or anyway that seems to be what happened for conservationist and “elephant whisperer” Lawrence Anthony, who died in March. A few days after his death, two herds of elephants filed through the bush to their friend’s home, where they appeared to stand vigil for two days, according to Anthony’s family.

Anthony had spent time living with the elephants, in order to care for traumatized animals who were considered violent and unruly. But at the time of his death, of a heart attack, Anthony was living in a house on the Thula Thula game reserve in South Africa. The park’s elephants hadn’t visited the house in a year and a half, but Anthony’s son Dylan says that the herds traveled 12 hours to arrive shortly after his father’s death.

Elephants are well-known for their grieving rituals when family members die. If they thought of Anthony as a sort of tiny, weird-nosed cousin — and why wouldn’t they, since he lived with and cared for them? — then it makes sense that they would give him the same treatment. And if animals can truly consider us a part of their family, it can mean only one thing: We owe a lot of elephants a lot of birthday gifts

[Inaayah8]

How did they know of his death

In case you needed another reason to care about wildlife, here’s one: If you devote your life to elephants, they might come to your funeral. Or anyway that seems to be what happened for conservationist and “elephant whisperer” Lawrence Anthony, who died in March. A few days after his death, two herds of elephants filed through the bush to their friend’s home, where they appeared to stand vigil for two days, according to Anthony’s family.

Anthony had spent time living with the elephants, in order to care for traumatized animals who were considered violent and unruly. But at the time of his death, of a heart attack, Anthony was living in a house on the Thula Thula game reserve in South Africa. The park’s elephants hadn’t visited the house in a year and a half, but Anthony’s son Dylan says that the herds traveled 12 hours to arrive shortly after his father’s death.

Elephants are well-known for their grieving rituals when family members die. If they thought of Anthony as a sort of tiny, weird-nosed cousin — and why wouldn’t they, since he lived with and cared for them? — then it makes sense that they would give him the same treatment. And if animals can truly consider us a part of their family, it can mean only one thing: We owe a lot of elephants a lot of birthday gifts

Subhan'Allah how amazinggggggggg right?

And here we have humans who discriminate each other because of differences in religion/race/tribe, who spread hate.

[Thuganomics]

Subhanalah indeed Inaayaah8 (are you our real and dear Inaayah)

What really flummoxed me though was how did they find out about his death?

[Inaayah8]

I'd like to know that too Thug.

Yeah it's me, had problems retrieving my old password/email account.

[YummyMummy]

Apparently when my maternal grandfather died, geelkii suddenly started wailing away loudly. When his father was told, he became instantly paralysed from the shock They couldn't silence the geel for a while...

On a completely different tangent, I'm a really good ant-whisperer. No joke. Alxamdulillah.

[Thuganomics]

Apparently when my maternal grandfather died, geelkii suddenly started wailing away loudly. When his father was told, he became instantly paralysed from the shock They couldn't silence the geel for a while...

On a completely different tangent, I'm a really good ant-whisperer. No joke. Alxamdulillah.

Yeah I've heard of geel olola wailing according to you,when a kind owner passes away.Also horses that hold vigil over a graves of their deceased owners.Lol@ ant whisperer, bal nooga sheekee Yumms.

[jalaaludin5]

Apparently when my maternal grandfather died, geelkii suddenly started wailing away loudly. When his father was told, he became instantly paralysed from the shock They couldn't silence the geel for a while...

On a completely different tangent, I'm a really good ant-whisperer. No joke. Alxamdulillah.

Thanks for the laugh. Allah khayr ha ku siiyo
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Elephants have good memory. Infact, they can recall events that happened years ago. I saw it on NatGeo.