This guy was very lucky to have escaped from an elephant. He was supposedly crushed to death but he escape because the elephant merely buried its trunk into the ground. Sphere: Related Content
Archive for Animals
02
Sep
2010
Life is a Gift, Unwrap It
Tags: animal friends, Animals, beagles, creed, friendship, greensburg ks, laugh, life is a gift, little lady, love, mankind, peace and harmony, rescuers, tornado, traveler, wreckage
After the tornado ( Greensburg , Ks.) THIS IS SUCH A GREAT STORY The story begins with the rescuers finding this poor little guy they named Ralphie. Someone had already taken him under their wing but they weren’t equipped to adopt. Ralphie, scared and starved, joined his rescuers… I wouldn’t think anything could live thru [...]
01
Sep
2010
Stop Orangutans Kickboxing
Tags: bell ringers, boxing gloves, boxing ring, campaigners, devastation, head of operations, illegal trade, impact of deforestation, indonesian borneo, kick box, menteng, monkey world in dorset, orangutan, orangutans, outskirts, repatriation, safari world, thailand government, theme park, trade punches
Dressed in garish shorts and boxing gloves, orangutans trade punches and spin-kick each other in a boxing ring. The sport takes place at a theme park called Safari World on the outskirts of Bangkok in Thailand. The same company was banned from doing exactly the same thing just six years ago The apes kick-box each [...]
26
Aug
2010
Management Stories
Tags: burrow, day in the forest, fool, fox, half a dozen, lazy lion, lazy lions, lion in the sun, rabbit, rabbits, rubbish, subordinates, sunny day, thesis, typewriter, watches, wolf
It’s a fine sunny day in the forest and a lion is sitting outside his cave, lying lazily in the sun. Along comes a fox, out on a walk. Fox: “Do you know the time, because my watch is broken” Lion: “Oh, I can easily fix the watch for you” Fox: “Hmm… But it’s a [...]
21
Aug
2010
This is an Incredible story!
Tags: bull elephant, bush, courage, creatures, elephant, elephants foot, encounter, kenya, legs, peter davies, railing, several times, son cameron, teenage son, tense moments, toronto zoo, twenty years, university of toronto
In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from the University of Toronto . 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 Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee, inspected [...]
13
Aug
2010
What to do when you are bored at work …
What to do… 1. Kill a few Flies 2. Put them in the sun to dry for one hour. 3. Once they are dry, pick a pencil and paper… Let your imagination flow. Here are a few examples… Makes me wonder, though: where does someone work that there are this many flies??? Sphere: Related Content
10
Aug
2010
Inner Peace
Inner Peace: This is so true If you can start the day without caffeine, If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it, If you can understand when your [...]
10
Aug
2010
A Bird’s Vanity
Tags: beak, Birds, colouring, drink of water, kingfishers, mark hancox, mirror, nuthatch, nuthatches, peers, perfect shot, photographer, pool, pucker up, reflection, rusty hook, still water, surface of the water, vanity, woodpecker
This is the incredible moment a beautiful Nuthatch is caught admiring its own reflection using a pool of still water – as a mirror. Photographer Mark Hancox waited for a month in a specially built hide just yards from the pool for the opportunity to get the perfect shot. He snapped the bird as it [...]
