Bogley

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This will melt your heart.
  


In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenyaafter 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 teen-aged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the
creatures turned and walked over to near where Mbembe and his son Tapu
werestanding. 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 overtherailing 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.