A man is on a journey in Africa (x-post from r/AntiJokes) He meets a wild elephant. They become best friends over the weeks that he is there conducting his research. The elephant would stomp it's feet in joy every time he saw the man. One day there was a bush fire, the man had to save himself and left the elephant behind. The man presumed that the elephant died. Flash forward to 10 years later, the man is wandering around the Bronx Zoo in New York. He looks at the elephants and strangely enough one elephant starts stomping it's feet. The man thinks to himself ""It can't be. There is just no way!"". The man demands that he be let into the cage at once, he explains to the zoo keeper that he knows the elephant. As soon as the man walks into the cage the elephant picks him up with his trunk, smashes him against the floor and kills him instantly. It wasn't the same elephant.