Elephant Cemetery

He was a very old elephant, maybe in his 50s. Very close to dying. It was very sad because this old fella barely moved. All his teeth were probably gone so he had limited choices when it came to food. Edwin, our guide, told us that the Maasai at first believed in "elephant graves", where most elephants came to a particular place to die. The true scientific explanation however is that these "graves" are often concentrated with elephant bones because these were areas where plant materials were softer to chew on, ideal for the aged elephants' diet. And as these elephants get too old to move around, they end up spending the last days of their lives in these areas, inadvertently giving rise to "elephant graves".