单项选择题

The elephant is the largest four-legged animal in the world. It is also, perhaps the gentlest, but not always!
Elephants are similar to human beings in some ways. They live for a long time --fifty or sixty years. They are emotional, too. They never forget great sadness or great happiness. When a female elephant dies, her daughters and her granddaughters are sad for several months. They stay with the dead body and then carry a bit of it away with them. They never forget a dear friend.
Elephants are like us, but they are also different. They also live in families, but only in families of females. There will be a few young males -- a few "baby boys". But the females will soon send them away. An elephant family keeps only its daughters, mothers and grandmothers, and its great-grand mothers.
The females stay together for fifty, sixty ... a hundred years. The older animals look after the young ones. The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example.
And what happens to male elephants Well, the young males stay with their mothers for a period of time. Then they must leave the family when they’ve grown up. The females just send them away. A bull elephant does not Often have a friend. He lives apart, away from the family, and often away from other bulls.
Sometimes the females call on a bull. He can visit them then, and stay for some time. But soon his "wives" and sisters send him away again. The females have a very happy family life. What do the bulls think about it We don’t know.

When a female elephant dies, other elephants would（）.

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