Elephants
If you still doubt that animals love, read Morell’s chapter on elephants. That baby calf who won’t leave his dead mother’s side? Or that family confused by the call of a dead relative? Don’t look, we’re weeping.
But elephants also celebrate life. After an elephant pair finishes mating, the others erupt in trumpets and cheers. Morell was lucky enough to be present for one such performance. “There was joy and pandemonium,” she says. “The female spun around, everybody was urinating; there was a lot of communication going on. It was an extraordinary thing to see.”
Photo: Virginia Morell
