Incredible story about an elephant's memory...

[sirstude]

You have all probably seen this before, but is is such a good story it needs repeating.

Doug
                           
                                                                           

                           
                                                                           
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 imbedded in the bottom of the foot.                  

                                                                           
As carefully and as gently as he could he worked the thorn ou with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.  The elephant turned toface the man and with a rather stern look, stared at him.  For a good ten minutes the man stood frozen – think 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 teenage son.  As they approached the elephant enclosure, on of the creatures turned and walked over to where they were standing at the rail.  The large bull elephant stared at him and then lifted it's front foot off the ground, then put it down.  The elephant did that sever times, all the while staring at the man.  The man couldn't help wondering if the was the same elephant.  After a while it trumpeted loudly, the it continued to stare at him.  The man summoned up his courage, climbed of the railing and made his way into the enclosure.  He walked right up to the elephant and started back in wonder.  Suddenly the elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around on of the man's lets and swung him wildly back and forth along the railing, killing him.                                                                    

                                                                           


Probably wasn't the same elephant.


GOTCHA!!!

[Dave]

                   :-}
Dave