Daily Telegraph ( Thina Thandhi) a Tamil newspaper dt. April 20, 2014 has reported that a mother elephant lost her balance and fell down on its way to a water pond and injured itself so badly that it died instantaneously. It happened near Thottakombai in Barhur forest area in Erode district of Tamil Nadu state. Soon a group of elephants surrounded the dead body and spent a night but the next day the forest staff saw  the baby elephant standing near the body and weeping like a human child. With lot of efforts they kept the baby at a distance and buried the body after the rituals. The onlookers were surprised at the scene where the baby elephant remained on the spot of burial on guard with tears falling from its eyes and remembering her mother for hours together.

Animals too behave like human beings and remember their mothers so intensely and emotionally. Hats off to the Mother Nature which has created such lives on this planet for ages and  ' Yugas '.

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