Viral Video: Mother Elephant Along With Her Herd Carries Body of Dead Calf For 2 Days, Refuses to Let It Go | Heart-Wrenching Clip
A mother elephant carrying the carcass of her calf with her trunk roamed tea estates and fringe areas of Bengal's Jalpaiguri district throughout Friday. Watch video here.
Viral Video: Intelligent and emphatic, elephants are capable of experiencing and understanding a wide range of emotions, including death. One such heart-wrenching sight has been reported from West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri where a mother elephant was captured carrying the body of her dead calf. A video has surfaced on social media showing the mama elephant struggling to lift her dead calf with her trunk in Ambari Tea Estate, Jalpaiguri and refusing to let it go.
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According to reports, the calf died on Friday in Dooars region’s Chunabhati tea garden, but the mother has refused to leave it since, and is believed to have carried the body for about seven kilometres. The mother of the calf picked it up with the trunk and meandered from one tea garden to another along with her herd, forest officials said. 30 other jumbos have also joined the grieving mother in her time of mourning. It is not clear how the calf died.
Watch the video here:
#WATCH | WB: A mother elephant seen carrying carcass of her dead calf in Ambari Tea Estate, Jalpaiguri. A team of Binnaguri wildlife reached there to retrieve the carcass but elephant walked away to Redbank Tea Estate. Cause of death yet to be ascertained.
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— ANI (@ANI) May 27, 2022
According tom ANI, a team of Binnaguri wildlife had reached there to retrieve the carcass but elephant walked away to Redbank Tea Estate. Meanwhile, forest officials are using drones to monitor the movement of the elephant and the herd. Sudhir Guha, an official of the Red Bank Tea Garden, said that the mother had brought the body of the calf from some distance into the tea garden, and for elephant herd has been in the garden for the past two days.
“Elephants are known to take extra care for their calves. We have come across several incidents of elephants pulling all stops to rescue their calves from any kind of distress. This incident is also an indicator of elephant behaviour. What is significant here is that the entire herd has joined the grieving female,” Shyama Prasad Pandey, coordinator of the Wildlife Trust of India-SPOAR elephant corridor monitoring project in northern West Bengal told The Hindu.
The video has gone viral and has saddened netizens, who are left heartbroken to witness such a sight.
See how delicately and respectfully see lifts carcass. She is grieving. Let her be and leave her alone.
— Qwqs (@qwaszxnulla) May 29, 2022
Animals are far more sensitive than we think they are 🙏🙏😥
— #savekbr (@maddy_9238) May 29, 2022
Animal is better than humans
All mothers care for thier children is portrayed here— Anupoma Sudha (@AnupomaSudha) May 29, 2022
So Sad 😭😢😵
Brave mom.
May the baby calf rest in peace.— Rajendraan C (@Rajendr09409599) May 29, 2022
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Heartbreaking!
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