Would YOU Do This???

Elephants Never Forget





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.

Would YOU Do This???
you mean help an elephant?





I may be dumb enough to do that.





Climb over a fence to a wild elephant who probably doesn't like people very much or is wild?





not dumb enough for that.





but thanks for asking.
Reply:I don't think I'd kill a man by grabbing him with my nose and slamming him against railing
Reply:What a sad ending





I wouldn't dare do what Mbembe did... Never
Reply:lol no but ive heard that b4
Reply:that kinda made me sad :(
Reply:If i were his son, i'd take another large piece of wood and stick it in the elephant's foot
Reply:or....same elephant only it woke up grouchy

gina