Posted on 06/01/2015 10:10:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz
In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Louisiana State University .
On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee, inspected the elephants foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. Surely, this injury would have eventually become infected, killing the elephant. So, as carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.
The elephant turned to face the man and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly -- once, twice, three times -- picked its foot up, and put it down, then turned and walked away. Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teen-aged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and his son Cameron were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly -- once, twice, three times -- all the while staring at the man.
Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter could not help wondering if this was the same elephant. Peter 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. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.
Probably wasn't the same damned elephant.
This is for everyone who sends me those heart-warming B.S. stories.
excellent lesson.....
Ok that’s funny.
That was very bad! lol
Very funny and very sad simultaneously.
You’s bad Laz....
LOL
Lay down with pigs....oh, wait..
Unless it's not the same damned elephant. Then you are screwed.
tusk, tusk, tusk...
I have a whole trunk full of these kind of stories.
Chicago? Must have been an Obama voter.
Well, the story did take place in Kenya.
You had me going :D
The Moral Of Our Story: 'tis infinitely better to be the hitter than the hittee.
I see what you did there. ;-)
LOL!!
We are so bad!
Actually, it could have been the presence of a younger elephant that would have caused the parental protection action.
All animals are fiercely protective of their young.
Aw geez. There’s always a spoilsport. LOL
aka another lesson in “They all look alike”
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