Fwd:Elephant Wisdom & Tsunamis

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SophiasRealm , Lisa Ruffin

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To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires

great courage. Matisse

 

 

 

 

Elephant Wisdom

 

A moving story of animal intelligence and wisdom:

 

From the unbelievable chaos of the Tsunami disaster

comes an incredible tale from Jim France of the

Pavilion Hotel Group in Bangkok.

 

At a resort on Phuket, one of the most popular

attractions is (was) elephant rides. As many as eight

people on one elephant, first into the surrounding

forest, then down to the beach, to lunch at a

freshwater lagoon, then back to the hotel. The

elephants (nine) were kept chained to in-ground posts,

not because they needed to be, but because it made the

mothers feel better because their children seemed safe

from atromping when feeding the beasts.

 

About twenty minutes before the first wave hit, the

elephants became extremely agitated and unruly. Four

had just returned from a trip and their handler?s had

not yet chained them. They helped the other five tear

free from their chains. They all then climbed a hill

and started bellowing. Many people followed them up

the hill. Then the waves hit.

 

After the waves subsided, the elephants charged down

from the hill, and started picking up children with

their trunks and running them backup the hill; when

all the children were taken care of, they started

helping the adults.

 

They rescued forty-two people. Then, they returned to

the beach and carried up four dead bodies, one of a

child.

Not until the task was done would they allow their

handler?s to mount them.

 

Then with handlers atop, they began moving wreckage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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