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A Biologist Saves an African Elephant Thanks to Joan W
A wildlife biologist had been in Africa for many years, studying elephant behavior. On one trip out into the jungle he had observed an adult elephant limping behind the pack. He watched the elephant with his scope and could see a terrible sore on the elephant's foot with a huge thorn sticking from the oozing hole. The elephant seemed in such pain that the biologist decided to risk his life and remove the thorn.
He mustered his courage and walked up to the beast. Slowly he reached down and grabbed the end of the thorn. With a big yank, he pulled the thorn from the animal's wound. The elephant screamed and spun to face the biologist. He stood there paralyzed with fear as the animal stared him in the eyes. After a moment, the elephant reached out to gently pat him with it's truck and then disappeared into the jungle.
This touching moment had stayed with the biologist for many years. One day he was visiting a local zoo with his son when a huge elephant rushed through it's exhibit and stopped at the edge of the fence. The animal stared at the biologist and longingly reached it's truck toward him. As the elephant stared at him, he recalled the tender moment shared with an elephant many years before. "Could this be that very same elephant?....It must be!" he thought. After having the animal stare at him for some time, he was overcome with a tender familiarity and climbed over the fence to get closer to the gentle beast. When he reached the animal, it reached out it's truck and picked the biologist off the ground by his legs. After slamming his body on the ground a few times, it bashed him against a tree and threw his body over the fence and back into the crowd of visitors.
I guess it wasn't the same elephant.
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