A Touching Story of a Man and an Elephant

In 1986, Mike Murray 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 Murray 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, Murray 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. Murray stood
frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the
elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.

Murray never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, he was walking through the Chicago Zoo with
his teenage son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of
the creatures turned and walked over to near where Murray and
his son Tom were standing.

The large bull elephant stared at Murray lifted its front foot off the
ground and 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, Murray couldn't help but
wonder if this was the same elephant.

He 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 Murray's legs and slammed him against the
railing, killing him instantly.

Probably wasn't the same elephant.


*Edit*

btw this is a fictive story