Kinda like Daniel in the lions den - only different ?

In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from
college.

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 thorn deeply embedded in it.

As carefully and as gently as he could, Mbembe 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 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 he was walking through a zoo with his teenaged son. As they
approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and
walked
over to near where Mbembe and his son Tapu were standing. The large
bull
elephant stared at Mbembe and 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 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.....