Elephants memory....

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Elephants memory....

Postby Josieclick » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:57 pm

Elephants Memory - a touching story


Because, as always, my Dad is pure class


Elephants Memory - A Touching Story

In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after
graduating from
college. 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 Mbembe approached it very carefully.
He got down on
one knee and inspected the elephant's foot, and
found a large thorn
deeply embedded in it.

As carefully and as gently as he could, Mbembe
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 several tense
moments Mbembe
stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being
trampled. Eventually
the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned and walked
away.

Mbembe never forgot that elephant or the events of
that day. Twenty
years later he was walking through a zoo with his
teenaged son. As
they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the
creatures turned
and walked over to near where Mbembe and his son
Tapu were standing.
The large bull elephant stared at Mbembe and lifted
its front foot
off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did
that several times
then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the
man.

Remembering the encounter in 1986, Mbembe couldn't
help wondering if
this was the same elephant. Mbembe 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
Mbembe's legs and
swung him wildly back and forth along the railing,
killing him.

Probably wasn't the same elephant. :hide:
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Postby Mgzy » Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:05 pm

hmmmmmmmmmmmm....

:mrgreen:
Mgzy
 

Postby Rowan » Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:09 pm

No good deed goes unrewarded then!! :rolleye11:
Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.
Gaelic Proverb

Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.
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