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Elephant's Memory
Topic Started: Jul 27 2006, 04:23 PM (101 Views)
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Mikael Forssell
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ELEPHANT'S MEMORY

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, 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 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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