Posted by LkArrowhd/CA on 9/14/06 7:21pm
Msg #146192

OTOTOT-------Have a chuckle....

Subject: An Elephant's Memory

An Elephant's Memory
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 were 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.

Reply by Joy223 on 9/14/06 8:42pm
Msg #146215

Too funny...thanks for the chuckle.

Reply by Ernest Adams on 9/15/06 7:03am
Msg #146276

Re: OTOTOT One more elephant memory story

(Since you brought up the subject.) Condensed version:

Twenty years ago, as we were fording a stream in Africa, we saw a turtle swim up and bite one of the elephants on its leg. The elephant trumpeted loudly, in obvious pain. The turtle escaped quickly. Our guide shrugged and we moved on.

Last week we happened to be near the same site, phographing placid elephants, led by the same guide. We were amazed to see one elephant thrust its trunk into the water and pull out a turtle. The elephant whirled the turtle around, bounced it off a couple of trees, tossed it into the air, and generally made the turtle's life difficult for several minutes. The elephant eventually threw the turtle far away.

We asked our guide what had happened. "Do you remember twenty years ago we saw a turtle bite an elephant?", the guide asked. "Yes," we replied, "but that was a long time ago." "Well," the guide said, "most elephants have good memories, but that elephant has turtle recall."