An Elephant's Memory
>
>Incredible story about an elephant's memory.. July 27, 2006
>
>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 were standing at the rail. The large bull
>elephant
>stared at him and lifted its 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.
