Elephants are known for their intelligence and memory, besides their overall adorable nature.

And what Indian Forest Service officer Parveen Kaswan witnessed that day proves Elephants just like humans also mourn their dead.

Heartbreaking footage shows an elephant carrying a dead baby at the front of a herd in a funeral-like procession.

In the video, which was shared widely on Social media, an elephant can be seen carrying the calf with its trunk and placing it in the middle of the road, and in what seemed like a funeral procession other elephants of the herd soon joined the adult elephant in grieving.

Kaswan captioned the video, “This will move you !! Funeral procession of the weeping elephants carrying the dead body of the child elephant. The family just don’t want to leave the baby.”

Indian Forest Service officer Parveen Kaswan

The adult elephant put the baby down once it reached the other side of the road, seemingly waiting for the rest of the ‘procession’ to catch up.

It was joined by another young elephant before being surrounded by the other members of the herd, who all gathered around the small animal on the ground.

The baby was then scooped back up into the safety of one of the bigger elephants’ trunks, and the herd proceeded off the road and back into the woods.

Soon after the video went viral, folks online reacted to the video.

“This is heart-rending. There’s a lot that humans can learn from animals” while the other tweeted, “Omg!!! First time I hava seen such video.. Really very touching.”

“Heart Touching Beautiful Words Given to the above Video. Funeral Procession.”

“Very Disturbing . The Pain is seen in Every Elephant in the procession.”

“What a family ! Paying their last rite with full respect.”

“Heart touching, Elephant is sensitive … emotional…in one vedio I saw Elephants are touching skeleton of dead elephant…”

Watch the heartbreaking video below:

Source: AWM

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