Touching Elephant Story
When a little bull goes a long way
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In 1986, Peter Davies was on vacation in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The young elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached very carefully. He got down on one knee, inspected the elephant’s foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on his face, stared at him for several tense moments. Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day. Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenage son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and his son were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted his 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 Kenya in 1986, Peter could not help wondering if this was the same elephant. Peter 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...  The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped his trunk around one of Peter’s legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly. Probably wasn’t the same elephant. This is for all my friends who send me those heart-warming bullcrap stories. Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker Done the elephants, done the poverty. - Phil Tufnell The elephant can survive only if forests survive. - Mark Shand Anything related to elephants is irrelephant. - Unknown When two elephants fight it is the grass that gets trampled. - African Proverb Before you eat the elephant, make sure you know what parts you want to eat. - Todd Stocker I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. - Herb Caen Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one. - WC Fields My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. - Steven Wright One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got into my pyjamas I'll never know. - Groucho Marx When you have an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln see also Inspiration & Elephant Sections African Car Wash Animal Groups Canada’s Concrete Pink Elephant Do Not Feed The Animals Downhill Safari Elephant Blues Elephant Breath Elephant Bus Elephant Circumcision Elephant Dung Decorative Paper Elephant Enema Elephant Haircut Elephant Hand Elephant Heist Elephant Instructions Elephant Ludo Elephant Nest Elephant Phonics Elephant Soccer Elephant Stew Elephant Sunset Elephant Trampoline Elephant’s Long Memory Herd Mentality Hide & Seek How Many Elephant Legs? Identity Theft IrrElephant Kermit Frog Loan King Of The Jungle Let ’Er Rip Looking For Something? Maybe My Job Is Not So Bad After All No-Elephant Building Overloaded Pooped Out Playground Potty Training An Elephant Professional Test River Crossing Serengeti Tug of War Stretch Elephants This Is My Road Trunk Sleeper Viagra Elephant Weight Wait When You Cross an Elephant with a Rhinoceros Zebra Keyboard
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