Do elephants have long memories?

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In 1986, Mike Allan was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from 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 Mike 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, Mike 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. Mike stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Mike never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Mike was walking through the zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Mike and his son Tom were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mike, 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, Mike couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Mike 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 Mike's legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly. Probably wasn't the same elephant.
 
thats really sad dudette but how did he get in ive tried to get into the cages at the zoo and you canunt its really hard

i didunt remember seeing this in the news but i was in jail most of 2006 what happened after that did the zoo get into troublefor letting him in?
 

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crannypeter said:
not for mike it isunt dudette or for his family that would be a bad weigh to die and what about the elephant did he get putted down?
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No. Mike had no business going into the elephant cage, his family and friends, although upset, conceded this and everyone just resumed normally an nothing happened to the elephant.
 
thats good dudette the humans sometimes think you have to kill an animal which kills a human even when the human was where it shouldunt be

mike might of been stupid but he was kind to the elephant the first time and he thunk the elephant remembered him which is kind of nice i think dudes

so he didunt mean bad and it is still sad for his family and for him too i supopose although he probably cant feel the sadness on account of being dead i feel sad for him
 
crannypeter said:
thats good dudette the humans sometimes think you have to kill an animal which kills a human even when the human was where it shouldunt be

mike might of been stupid but he was kind to the elephant the first time and he thunk the elephant remembered him which is kind of nice i think dudes

so he didunt mean bad and it is still sad for his family and for him too i supopose although he probably cant feel the sadness on account of being dead i feel sad for him
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I try not to think about it.
 

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Was that the same elephant that was a jewel thief who threw a brick through a window and ran off with all the jewels in the front window?

The copper at the scene asked for witnesses and this bloke stepped forward and said he had seen the elephant throw a brick through the window and take all the jewels. The copper asked if it was an african elephant or an indian elephant, explaining that african elephants have bigger ears (to keep the flies away). The witness said he couldn't tell, it had a stocking on it's head.
 
Scroater said:
Was that the same elephant that was a jewel thief who threw a brick through a window and ran off with all the jewels in the front window?

The copper at the scene asked for witnesses and this bloke stepped forward and said he had seen the elephant throw a brick through the window and take all the jewels. The copper asked if it was an african elephant or an indian elephant, explaining that african elephants have bigger ears (to keep the flies away). The witness said he couldn't tell, it had a stocking on it's head.
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brother i donunt think that happened the only placed a seed elephants in the street is thailand and india never seen it in australia i thunk that is made up

unless it was in thailand or india

also would it matter which kind of elephant it is there wouldunt be many even on patpong road there was only three it wouldunt of been hard to work out whose elephant it was

dude typical dumb coppers
 
crannypeter said:
brother i donunt think that happened the only placed a seed elephants in the street is thailand and india never seen it in australia i thunk that is made up

unless it was in thailand or india

also would it matter which kind of elephant it is there wouldunt be many even on patpong road there was only three it wouldunt of been hard to work out whose elephant it was

dude typical dumb coppers
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Is this bloke serious or wat?
 
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