There has been a legend since ancient times that elephants must go to their secret cemetery to welcome the end before they die. About half a century ago, an expedition team discovered a cave in the dense forests of Africa, which contained piles of ivory and bones. This news caused a sensation in the world, and many people thought that this cave was the cemetery of elephants.
The story goes like this. In late April 2003, a man organized an 11-member expedition into the Masalobi jungle in southern Kenya. Among them were Germans and British. People, Americans, and four local Luau tribes who were hired to be guides and porters. In addition, they brought a specially trained hound, Saik. The purpose of their trip is to find the elephant cemetery that has plagued the biology community for many years. For thousands of years, people have never found the body of an elephant that died naturally in the wild. Therefore, there are legends that the elephant will leave the elephant herd alone before dying and go to a mysterious place to welcome its end. Everyone was very happy to cooperate along the way. Before this expedition officially began, this man had made careful preparations with Chad, Esmond and Martin, and there was another man from China who was also from China. Young female doctor of biology. After more than half a month of searching for nothing, they were exhausted and exhausted one by one. Just as everyone was in a fierce debate about whether to continue searching, the careful female doctor found a faltering and depressed old elephant in the wild elephant group. They tested the feces of the old elephant and learned that it had a serious digestive tract disease, which meant that it might not live long.
After careful research, they decided to follow this old elephant. Every day they keep a distance of at least 700 meters from the wild elephant group, and observe its every move through the high-powered telescope . Several times, the elephant herd seemed to have spotted them, and the elephants ran over with a long howl, and they retreated quickly in fright. Wild elephants rarely pursue their enemies, so they are spared every time. After following the elephant group for more than 20 days, the female doctor observed the abnormal behavior of the sick old elephant: it began to refuse to eat.Howl of mourning all night, the amount of activity greatly reduced. One morning, they found that the old elephant silently walked into the depths of the jungle under the quiet gaze of the entire elephant herd, and a long, sad howl came soon behind it. The stray elephant’s whereabouts are unpredictable. Sometimes it will run suddenly, sometimes it will stop and look around, without moving for a long time. It will even circle the jungle to get rid of possible followers, so that they are often lost. The tracking target. Fortunately, they have a lot of advanced detection equipment and the conscientious hound Seike, so they will always find a few valuable clues in the confusion, and the old elephant will never disappear from our field of vision for more than two days.
After following more than a week, they found that the old elephant had stopped near a river valley. It flapped its huge ears and seemed to be listening to the surrounding movement. They held their breath, lying in the bushes 1,000 meters away, secretly observing with high-powered telescopes. After enduring nearly four hours of suffering, they finally saw the old elephant turning around and walking towards a hidden cave. The cave was above the river channel, and the entrance was covered with dense vegetation and huge rocks. The elephants used their long noses to push away the thick trees and rocks lying on the entrance of the cave, and then walked in; then, they I saw it sticking out its nose from the cave, rolling up trees and boulders to cleverly cover the entrance of the cave. Why are Xiang’s cemeteries so difficult to find? It turns out that they are so smart, even if someone and other animals accidentally discovered such a cave. The big trees and boulders piled at the entrance of the cave that only elephants have the power to remove are also enough to dispel their desire to peek into the secrets of the cave.
Does the elephant cemetery exist? Some people think this is just a lie made up by some poachers to cover up the crime of hunting elephants. There was such a tragedy in the 1920s: a herd of elephants was hunted heavily by European explorers, and it happened to be caught in a forest fire. The entire elephant herd was not spared. As a result, the explorers obtained a large amount of ivory, and in order to cover up, they fabricated the story of the discovery of the elephant cemetery. Some zoologists have witnessed the funeral of elephants.The elephants formed a circle around their dead companions to mourn, then dug a deep hole with their long teeth, and rolled up a stone with their nose to bury the corpse. But the buried elephants were all female elephants or baby elephants. The corpse of the husband's elephant with precious tusks has never been found. Some people think that they were in the swamp before they died, so people could not find their bodies. But how does the elephant know the date of his death? Continue to search for Hamlet one day, see you next time~
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