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

Source: The Guardian · Published 21 Oct 2026, 14:08

‘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 up in Milan in a house full of old nature books. When I was six, my parents took me on my first safari in Kenya – I cried…

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‘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 up in Milan in a house full of old nature books.
When I was six, my parents took me on my first safari in Kenya – I cried…

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

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