Yet this story of a legendary elephant burial is nothing new in the UK. There are various accounts of such graves from Victorian times, most of them deemed to be nothing more than urban myths.

Elephant burial rituals have been discovered in India, with herd members placing calves upside down in irrigation pits then covering the bodies with soil. When you purchase through links on our ...

Alan Bryant, curator at Kingswood Museum, said: "I first heard about the Kingswood elephant burial in the 1970s when I was doing my rounds as a local milkman. "Since then, I have had countless ...

Alan Bryant, curator at Kingswood Museum, said: “I first heard about the Kingswood elephant burial in the 1970s when I was doing my rounds as a local milkman. “Since then, I have had countless ...

When Riddle asked the Asian elephant specialist group about this burial activity, "nobody else has seen it," she says. "It appears to be very specific to tea gardens in northeast India." ...

Asian elephants have been documented deliberately burying the bodies of their calves in the first scientific report of such behaviour in this species. Five buried calves were discovered in ...

18 Main St. Mahoney will relate his search for the burial site of a circus elephant who died following a bridge collapse in the Berkshires in 1851. The presentation is free and open to the public For ...

The researchers also looked at whether the Asian elephants would revisit burial sites, as African elephants are known to do, but found that instead they would tend to avoid the area, said Roy.

Legendary' burial rumours Although no historical sources reference the death, the elephant is said to have died from yew leaf poisoning. Alan Bryant, curator at Kingswood Museum, said ...