LA_MERC_Andyconda
July 20th, 2006, 08:51 AM
Incredible story about an elephant's memory!!
>>
>>
>> A young man was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from college.
>> While he was walking through the bush, he came across a young bull
>> elephant standing
>> with one leg raised in the air.
>>
>> The elephant seemed distressed so the man approached it very
>> carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot.
>>
>> There was a large thorn deeply embedded in the bottom of the foot.
>>
>> As carefully and as gently as he could he worked the thorn out with
>> his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its
>> foot. The elephant turned to face the man and with a rather stern
>> look on its face, stared at him. For a good ten minutes the man stood
>> frozen -- thinking of
>> nothing else but being trampled.
>>
>>
>> Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned and walked away.
>>
>> The man never forgot that elephant or the events of that day. Twenty
>> years later the man was walking through the zoo with his teenaged
>> son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures
>> turned and walked
>> over to where they are standing at the rail. The large bull elephant
>> stared
>> at him and lifted it's front foot off the ground, then put it down. The
>> elephant did that several times, all the while staring at the man. The
>> man
>> couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant.
>> After a while it trumpeted loudly; then it continued to stare at him.
>>
>> The man summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made
>> his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and
>> stared back in
>> wonder.
>>
>> Suddenly the elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one
>> of the man's legs and swung him wildly back and forth along the
>> railing, killing
>> him.
>>
>> Probably wasn't the same elephant.
>>
>>
>> A young man was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from college.
>> While he was walking through the bush, he came across a young bull
>> elephant standing
>> with one leg raised in the air.
>>
>> The elephant seemed distressed so the man approached it very
>> carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot.
>>
>> There was a large thorn deeply embedded in the bottom of the foot.
>>
>> As carefully and as gently as he could he worked the thorn out with
>> his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its
>> foot. The elephant turned to face the man and with a rather stern
>> look on its face, stared at him. For a good ten minutes the man stood
>> frozen -- thinking of
>> nothing else but being trampled.
>>
>>
>> Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned and walked away.
>>
>> The man never forgot that elephant or the events of that day. Twenty
>> years later the man was walking through the zoo with his teenaged
>> son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures
>> turned and walked
>> over to where they are standing at the rail. The large bull elephant
>> stared
>> at him and lifted it's front foot off the ground, then put it down. The
>> elephant did that several times, all the while staring at the man. The
>> man
>> couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant.
>> After a while it trumpeted loudly; then it continued to stare at him.
>>
>> The man summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made
>> his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and
>> stared back in
>> wonder.
>>
>> Suddenly the elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one
>> of the man's legs and swung him wildly back and forth along the
>> railing, killing
>> him.
>>
>> Probably wasn't the same elephant.