[Fwd: FW: Amazing Elephant story]

     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 are 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 swung him wildly back and forth along the  railing, killing him.      Probably wasn't the same elephant.