Jumbo Jokes

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 Mbobo 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, Mbobo 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.

Mbobo stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually

the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Mbobo never forgot

that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Mbobo 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 Mbobo and his son Ghandi were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mbobo, then 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, Mbobo couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Mbobo summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant. The Elephant stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Mbobo's legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.