Editing Elephants' graveyard (section)

== Popular culture ==
The idea of an elephant graveyard first appeared in popular culture with [[H. Rider Haggard|Sir Rider Haggard]]'s ''[[The Ivory Child]]'' (1916), the twelfth of the eighteen [[Allan Quatermain]] adventures.

The idea of a graveyard for elephants was popularized in films such as ''[[Trader Horn (1931 film)|Trader Horn]]'' and MGM's [[Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)|Tarzan]] films, in which groups of greedy explorers attempt to locate the elephants' graveyard, on the fictional Mutia Escarpment, in search of its riches of ivory.<ref name="Earnheart">{{cite journal | last = Earnhart | first = Brady | title = A Colony of the Imagination: Vicarious Spectatorship in MGM's Early Tarzan Talkies | journal = Quarterly Review of Film and Video | volume = 24 | issue = 4 | pages = 341–352 | date = 1 July 2007 | doi = 10.1080/10509200500526778| s2cid = 194054571 }}</ref>

Disney's 1994 animated musical film ''[[The Lion King]]'' has a reference to this motif, as well as its [[The Lion King (musical)|musical adaptation]], [[The Lion King (video game)|video game adaptation]], and the [[The Lion King (2019 film)|2019 remake of the film]].

In the video game, [[Tarzan: Untamed]], Tantor accidentally leads hunters to the Elephant Graveyard where they are buried after Tarzan beats them