Incredible story about an elephant's memory...

A young man was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from college.

While he was walking through the bush, he came across a young bull
elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.

The elephant seemed distressed so the man approached it very carefully.
He
got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot. There was a
large
thorn deeply embedded in the bottom of the foot.

As carefully and as gently as he could he worked the thorn 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 stern look on its
face, stared at him. For a good ten minutes the man stood frozen --
thinking of nothing else but being trampled.

Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned and walked away.

The man never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later the man was walking through the zoo with his
teenaged
son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures
turned and walked over to where they were standing at the rail. The
large
bull elephant stared at him and lifted it's front foot off the ground,
then put it down. The elephant did that several times, all the while
staring at the man. The man couldn't help wondering if this was the
same
elephant.

After a while it trumpeted loudly; then it continued to stare at him.

The man 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.

Suddenly the elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of
the
man's legs and beat him mercilessly against the concrete enclosure, very thoroughly killing him.



Probably wasn't the same elephant.

That's an old elephant trick that they all learn when very young.