mark_sheepwash Posted August 23, 2006 Posted August 23, 2006 An Elephant's Memory - 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,t hinking of nothing >> else >> but being trampled. >> >> Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly,t urned 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 theya pproached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures >>t urned 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 >> the man's legs and swung him wildly back and forth along the railing, >> killing him. >> >> Probably wasn't the same elephant. >> >>
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