Pull-Carcass

Using the trunk to pull on the appendages of a dead elephant. Elephants may be observed to grasp the trunk, leg, tusks or tail of a dead elephant and pull. We separate Lift-Carcass and Pull-Carcass, but others have used the terms interchangably. Goldenberg & Wittemyer (2019) comment that attempts to lift or pull fallen elephants were restricted to very fresh deaths. This is also our observation.

References: Goldenberg & Wittemyer, Poole 1996. (Full reference list)

This behavior occurs in the following context(s): Death