Toronto Zoo Elephants Mourn

When the matriarch of the seven-member African elephant herd at the Toronto Zoo, Patsy, died Monday at age 40, the other six elephants mourned, as expected. (Link)

A matriarch is the leader of the elephant herd, as adult males are not participants in the social structure of the herd.

""They came over and touched her with their trunks. They were mourning for her," Toronto Zoo CEO Calvin White said of the six surviving members of the herd.