Does an Elephant Really Remember?
A man was on holiday in Kenya. While he was walking through the bush, he came across an 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 removed the thorn and the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man and stared at him intently. For a long minute the man stood frozen – thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned and walked away.
For years after, the man remembered the elephant and the events of that day. One day the man was walking through a zoo. As he approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to where he was standing at the rail. It stared at him and the man couldn’t help wondering if this might be his old friend from Kenya.
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 beast trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of the man’s legs and swung him wildly back and forth along the railing, killing him.
Probably wasn’t the same elephant.
The Kangaroo’s Fence at the Zoo
A kangaroo kept getting out of his enclosure at the zoo.
Knowing that he could hop high, the zoo officials put up a ten-foot fence. He was out the next morning, just roaming around the zoo. A twenty-foot fence was put up. Again he got out. Read more…
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A man brought a limp dog into the veterinary clinic. The doctor pulled out his stethoscope, placed it on the dog’s chest, and said, “I’m sorry, but your dog has passed away.” Read more…
The Goony Bird
After many years of marriage, a husband turned into a couch potato. He became completely inattentive to his wife and sat guzzling beer and watching TV all day. The wife was dismayed because Read more…
