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Elephant rescue

ecar3483 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 05:54:59 GMT

If you're going to rescue an elephant, you might as well make it something that you can tell your grand kids about...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-13/sri-lankan-navy-rescues-elephant-in-the-sea/8704330

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Re: Elephant rescue

tasfleur — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 05:59:23 GMT

Poor elephant looked like it was saved just in time, seemed to have just about given up. Thanks ecar, what a wonderful rescue by those kind people.

Re: Elephant rescue

lyndal1838 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 06:36:51 GMT

That was one jumbo sized rescue....the poor elephant must have been so scared.

Re: Elephant rescue

ecar3483 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 08:12:50 GMT

I know that elephants can swim, and quite well, but as the story says it got caught in the currents and taken well away from shore.

Perhaps in future it'll stick to currant buns, rather than ocean currents, ha ha

An elephant went to sea, sea, sea

To see what he could see, see, see

But all that he could see, see, see

Was the kind people from the Navy coming to rescue him.

It may not rhyme, but at least it ended well, ha ha.

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Re: Elephant rescue

icyfroth — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 08:37:41 GMT

Jeez poor thing. Good it could be rescued

Re: Elephant rescue

lind9650 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:48:17 GMT

What a great, happy ending. It just shows that some people do care.

Not like the ones that pay big money to shoot our beautiful, wild animals.

I just read another story about Elephants.

Elephants never forget. I am sure this poor thing will never go swimming in the ocean again.

Thanks for sharing a feel good story.

Erica

Re: Elephant rescue

debra9275 — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 02:13:34 GMT

what a wonderful rescue Ecar.. it's great to see people doing something good for our precious animals

the poor elephant must've been near exhaustion... I hope he's OK now

Re: Elephant rescue

debra9275 — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 00:40:48 GMT

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4722522/Sri-Lanka-navy-rescues-two-elephants-washed-sea.html

again!

fantastic that they were saved but it

makes me wonder just how many elephants are getting washed away at sea

Re: Elephant rescue

imastawka — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 01:33:05 GMT

Thanks for posting that Debra.

It does make you wonder.....and worry at the same time.

It's good that the Navy is rescuing them, though.

Some countries might not bother.

Re: Elephant rescue

bright.ton42 — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 01:41:34 GMT

Always happy to read of good news animal stories, cheers me up.

Re: Elephant rescue

ecar3483 — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 03:54:06 GMT

It's all the reason they need to recruit surf lifesaving elephants...

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Re: Elephant rescue

imastawka — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 04:07:51 GMT

Is that a Baywatch elephant?

Re: Elephant rescue

ecar3483 — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 04:42:31 GMT

I couldn't quite get the Baywatch logo to work on the swimsuit, so I drew a lifeguard hat on instead, ha ha.

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Re: Elephant rescue

kopenhagen5 — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 09:09:48 GMT

Another rescue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJGUzGCGFLU