A grieving female elephant carrying a stillborn baby: Federico Veronesi’s best photograph

‘She carried the dead calf for hours even though it wasn’t hers. She had had a miscarriage two years before – and now picked up the stillborn babies of other mothers’ My love of African animals, in particular elephants, dates back to when I was three or four years old, growing…

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