Something from somewhere else~

In 1986, Mikele Mebembe 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 Mikele 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, Mikele 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. Mikele stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being  
trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and  
walked away. Mikele never forgot that elephant or the events of  
that day.  

Twenty years later, Mikele was walking through the Brookfield Zoo  
in Chicago with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant  
enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near  
where Mikele and his son Tapu were standing. The large bull  
elephant stared at Mikele, 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, Mikele couldn't help wondering  
if this was the same elephant. Mikele 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 Mikele's  
legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.  
Probably wasn't the same elephant.