Author's note : This awe-inspiring story is not mine. It was an email forwarded to me and I just felt the need to share it with you all so you could see another example of the love and gratitude animals have that humans don't have these days.
In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after 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 Peter approached it very carefully.
He got down on one knee, inspected the elephants foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his 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... Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.
Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and his son Cameron were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Peter, 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, Peter could not help wondering if this was the same elephant. Peter 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.
The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.
Probably wasn't the same elephant..
Author's note : Yeeeeeah. I lied about the love and gratitude part. Just wanted to point out that BLIND FAITH KILLS !!!!
It had the desired effect on me... I read the whole post. Then read the end. Scrolled back up. Read the author's note at the beginning again. And then the one at the end again. Gah! Nicely told! :)
ReplyDeleteHmmmmpf....
ReplyDeleteunexpected kind of post !!!
hmmm....
ReplyDeleteAmazing memory and sense of gratitude.
ReplyDeletehmmmmm,,,
ReplyDeletewell written, which means the pun intended had its affect on me!! :(
finally a wild twisted evil ending to an otherwise good yarn. nice bro .....me likeeee very much
ReplyDeleteAnkita, Moushmi, Aathira... funny sort of reaction :)
ReplyDeleteChoco, glad u got it.
Alka, really :)
moonlite, just stating a fact in a fun way via this story.
Sharat, I know.. hehe.. thats why copy-pasted it directly here
Ouch..... agreed, blind faith kills..
ReplyDeleteSad..I was expecting a different climax!
ReplyDeleteSame grattitude and love are shown by humans now a times . . . may be we learned from these animals. so else , we were great . .:)kidding
ReplyDeleteVarsha.. yup it sure does.
ReplyDeleteHarman, sorry to disappoint.
Vivs, we could learn a lot from animals honestly
Nice twist it was!!!
ReplyDeleteChoco sent me your way. Your last line "blind faith kills"this reminded me of something I heard today. A man can have great faith that the thin ice will hold him and he will die. Another man can have nearly no faith that the thick ice will hold him and live. Lesson - It is better to have small faith in one that is faithful then great faith in one who is not faithful.
ReplyDeleteOH BTW - you got me. :-)
offooooooooooooooooooooo:/
ReplyDeletebut well told;-)
sad for the protagnist, but then its such state of affairs that breeds wit and humour,intending a message in the end.(not making it seem like some fable or a moral sroty)
ReplyDeletenice read.
:D roflol :D
ReplyDeletetoo good :) but blind faith is unavoidable Sometimes :)
ha ha... nice twist.. I was expecting another "ur" kind of post.. This was nice nevertheless...
ReplyDeleteRohan, ya.. I know. I liked it too.
ReplyDeleteGrayQuill, nice quote... and very very true.
Suruchi, hehe
4twc, its meant as a joke.. it aint a true story.. but the underlying moral holds significance for our nation especially which thrives on blind faith.
ReplyDeleteMAD, hey.. Godyears is always about the unexpected :)
interesting story
ReplyDeleteOh My God. You could have saved this to post on April 1st !
ReplyDeleteSm.. thanks :)
ReplyDeleteAnita, cheh !! I didnt think of that... but then again, I guess that would have been too obvious , right ...
Now that you tell me.. it reads like a forwarded mail- the ending is unexpected. There is something similar that Ruskin Bond had written involving a tiger.
ReplyDeleteAiks!
ReplyDeleteamazing story. Having grown up in Africa there is a saying that "an elephant never forgets" and this is VERY true. * Danika
ReplyDeleteWhen Peter stared back in wonder, my heart was already warming at the prospective pachyderm-Peter PDA. It was scary, but the moral is worth remembering. The shot of the tusker and the man posing as if they are the best of friends makes the story sound real. Nicely written.
ReplyDeleteSheesh.....I know I shouldn't burst out laughing but m laughing at ur last comment...did u just fool us?! :-O nice story telling!!!
ReplyDeletehehe.. no it really is just an email forward.. but one i thoroughly enjoyed
DeleteU dint write it u say?such a twisted tale!!:-)
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