Editing Elephants' graveyard (section)

==Origin==
Several theories have been proposed to explain the origin of this myth. One theory involves people finding groups of elephant skeletons together, or observing old elephants and skeletons in the same habitat.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Armitage | first1 = Kenneth B. | title = The Great Beast&nbsp;— Elephant Life: Fifteen Years of High Population Density | journal = BioScience | volume = 42 | issue = 3 | pages = 196–197 | date = March 1992 | doi = 10.2307/1311827 | publisher = BioScience, Vol. 42, No. 3 | last2 = Buss | first2 = Irven O. | jstor = 1311827| hdl = 1808/10608 | hdl-access = free }}</ref>  Others suggest the term may spring from group die-offs, such as one excavated in [[Saxony-Anhalt]], which had 27 ''[[Straight-tusked Elephant|Palaeoloxodon antiquus]]'' skeletons.<ref>{{cite conference | last1 = Brühl | first1 = Enrico | last2 = Mania | first2 = Dietrich | title = Neumark-Nord: a middle Pleistocene lake shore with synchronous sites of different functional character | book-title = Données récentes sur les modalités de peuplement en Europe au Paléolithique inférieur et moyen | publisher = Université de Rennes | date = 22–25 September 2003 | location = Rennes}}</ref>  In that particular case, the tusks of the skeletons were missing, which indicated either hunters killed a group of elephants in one spot, or else opportunistic scavengers removed the tusks from a natural die-off.{{cn|date=October 2015}} 

Other theories focus on elephant behavior during lean times, suggesting starving or elderly elephants who have worn their teeth down to a point that they can no longer chew tougher foods gather in places where finding food is easier, and subsequently die there.<ref name="Oxford">[http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t227.e47 Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Richard Barnes, Hezy Shoshani, A. Christy Williams, A. J. T. Johnsingh, Robin Beck, Katy Payne "Elephants"  The Encyclopedia of Mammals. Ed. David W. Macdonald. Oxford University Press, 2007. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 28 August 2007]</ref> Prolific elephant hunter [[W. D. M. Bell|Walter "Karamojo" Bell]] discounted the idea of the elephant's graveyard, stating that bones and "tusks were still lying about in the bush where they had lain for years".<ref>{{cite book|last=Bell|first=Walter|title=Karamojo Safari|publisher=Harcourt, Brace|year=1949|isbn=1-57157-358-5|page=26}}</ref>