In Case You Were Wondering Why I Love Elephants So

[snurri]

This article does a pretty good job of summarizing it:

On they came, until they began to assemble around the bloody remains of the baby elephant, some stamping their feet and snorting in the direction of the lion family they knew still to be near. But most would lightly touch and sniff the body with their trunks and then move to a respectable distance, standing in silent groups. . . . Still more elephants arrived until there were at least 100 in all, the latecomers filtering their way to the body, seemingly paying their respects, then moving to the rear of the congregation.

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[ombriel.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, okay--they are trained to do that. That is indeed quite different from an elephant spontaneously drawing images of herself. But yeah, I agree--it still speaks to a great intelligence, or something, that they are able to remember how to do it.