Asian elephants mourn loudly for their dead calves and bury them with a sort of funeral rite. Study of five burials of cubs under one year of age in the northern Bengal region of India.
In all five cases, the cub's carcass was carried by the pack, dragged by its legs and trunk, and then buried in an unusual supine position. During one of these 'funerals', members of the pack bellowed loudly around the buried cub. The footprints of around twenty specimens have been identified near and above the mounds.