Wow, I love elephants and support many elephant campaigns, but I had not heard this.

It is truly awesome, but I am not surprised.  Elephants are incredibly intelligent and sensitive.

There are other animals who display touching shows of grief.  For example, when George Adamson died (the man who spent his life with lions), after the human funeral, on the same night all the lions he knew gathered at his grave and stayed there all night.

Wildlife is wonderful ! 

Thank you for posting, OP.