Elephants have been known to mourn and bury their lost loved ones. There is footage of elephants even shedding tears as they bury their dead and it can take as long as 3 days for an elephant to leave the side of a loved one who has passed. If a mother elephant loses a child, she will always at some point return to the spot where her child is buried to mourn, sometimes years after the death.

When Lawrence Anthony, "The Elephant Whisperer", who lived among the elephants for a time, passed away, elephants came to his house and mourned for a day and a half. No one knows how they knew he had passed, but 2 herds who had not visited for over a year arrived and grieved outside of his home.

As humans, it is often hard to believe that other creatures are as capable of love as we are. The way that elephants mourn and love each other has to make you believe that there is some greater purpose to their lives than simply surviving.