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This is so touching...
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 tr umpeted 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.
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Probably wasn't the same elephant...
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I walk in eternity 15000+ posts
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I walk in eternity 15000+ posts
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"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your death bring you the peace you never found in life." - Tuvok. 
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