Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance. The five stages of grief. Bella read tons of studies that claim elephants actually have a human-like grief process. The large animals had always intrigued her, but she’d never quite had the opportunity to study them up close and personal. She knew that they had many incredible aspects about them, such as the fact that they had the longest gestation period of all mammals. An average elephant female carried a calf in utero for a whomping 95 weeks. Humans were pregnant for 40 weeks and that already seemed way too long.
Elephants also had amazing memory. Some people said that elephants never forget. Bella sure hoped that they were forgiving creatures in that case. She couldn’t imagine not being able to forget. “Looking at elephant research again?” Bella almost jumped out of her skin at the sound of Nathan’s voice all of a sudden. She chuckled. She’d been so deep into her research that she’d forgotten the world around her. She gasped. “The girls--!” “--are with Belie. She said you asked her to watch them for an hour.” “Oh jeez…” Bella smirked sheepishly. “I totally forgot.” She grimaced slightly and sighed. “I lost track of time. That doesn’t make me a bad mother does it?” Nathan stood behind the office chair and placed his hands on Bella’s shoulders. “Not at all.” He looked at the pile of journal articles and books. “So what’s on your mind?” He nodded towards the research on the screen. “Well… I’d like to do some field research. It’s risky. Maybe even a little crazy… what do you think?”
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