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Even though there are a few anecdotal accounts about Asian elephants’ reaction to death in connection with members of their herd, scientists have for the first time observed and recorded the behavior of free­ranging Asian elephants towards dying and dead elephants. The paper titled  Behavioural responses of freeranging Asian elephants (elephas maximus) towards dying or dead conspecifics (conspecifics refers to member of same species) was published in the Springer group of publications earlier this year. In the publication researchers observed that the elephants showed behaviours like exploratory (sniffing and inspecting) and epimeletic (supporting the distressed animals) or physically helping supporting dying calves.  “We also recorded high frequency vocalisation (trumpets) by an adult female in the case of dying calves. Our observations in- dicate that, like their African counterparts, Asian elephants might experience distress in response to death of conspecifics and may have some awareness of death,” the paper authored by Nachiketha Sharma, Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel, Shiro Kohshima and Raman Sukumar states.

Through the publication scientists have observed and recorded three specific  cases of the elephants responding to injured, dying or dead conspecifics “Two of the three cases involved adult female calf pair and involved epimeletic or helping behavior towards the injured and dying calves. In all three cases, exploratory and approach/visit behaviours towards the dying and dead individuals were observed,” the scientists record in the paper. Well­known ecologist from the Indian Institute of Science and elephant expert Raman Sukumar who has contributed to the paper said that from the evolutionary biology perspective these behaviours of elephants appear as an adaptive feature.“We are just beginning to understand this, especially the calf deaths because those are not easy to observe in the wild. The whole social cognitive makeup of the elephant, these kinds of significant emotions are a part of this frame-work,” he said. Prof. Sukumar said that in the case of African elephants a behaviour was observed which involves taking interest in the bones of other elephants. “But that kind of behavior has not been observed in Asian elephants sofar,”.