Remember that old story about the elephants' graveyard? Well, there may be a reason for thinking elephants have a human sensitivity to their dead -- New Scientist reports on a study experimentally testing observations that elephants become agitated on seeing dead elephants; it seems that elephants show a much greater interest in elephant skulls than those of rhino or buffalo. Few animals show an interest in their own dead.

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