An elephant never forgets

Tusker Tim – one of the largest elephants in Kenya
Credit: Amboseli Trust for Elephants/Lonely Planet

“An elephant never forgets.”

May or may not be true, but when he was speared recently, Tusker Tim remembered where to go for medical care – the same place he had been treated for a similar injury two years earlier.

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2016/07/04/elephant-didnt-forget-aid-needed/#ixzz4DUuVwoC7 / they say elephants never forget Tusker Tim Tusker Tim Tusker Tim speared for a second time stories of attacks on animals in the wild happy ending Kenya‘s Kenya Kenya Kenya biggest and oldest elephants elephants elephants elephant elephant elephant wily old animal knew best course of action head to a camp which had nursed him back to full health before one of his tusks almost touches the ground animal left his attackers behind headed directly site close to Amboseli National Park Amboseli National Park Amboseli National Park 47-year-old bull elephant understood the place where he would get medical aid to treat his wound Conservationist David Bates famed elephant concerned huge bleeding wound in his head small spear protruding from the wound animal hit by a huge rock conservationist Kenyan Wildlife Service Kenyan Wildlife Service Kenyan Wildlife Service KWS Kenyan Wildlife Service KWS Kenyan Wildlife Service KWS spear poisoned spear poisoned spear poisoned African elephant went missing overnight searches search searchers Amboseli Trust for Elephants Big Life Foundation BLF animal spotted by an aerial search team darted allow medical treatment spear poisoned poison under ear area rather than full on wound only scratched the skin swamps in mid-Amboseli first spearing deep wound had become infected needed treatment by Dr. Michael Njoroge head of the Amboseli Veterinary Unit spear was smaller child children might use Amboseli Trust for Elephants elephants attack by poachers kill them sell their tusks on the international black market /