Animals That Can Think
Finlay Mackay for TIME
Bubbles
Photographed at the Institute of the Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS) in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Bubbles is a 29-year-old African female elephant. Elephants are noted for their very familial ways and appear to mourn their dead.
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