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I thought I,d share this. Cowboy

 

 

In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday 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 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 piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As

carefully and as gently as he could, Mbembe worked the wood 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 curious 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, Mbembe was walking through the Chicago 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, 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.

 

The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Mbembe's legs

and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.

 

Probably wasn't the same elephant.

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