Elephants are very interesting. They are the largest of all land mammals and have a lifespan of 70 years; and can smell water three miles away. One other fascinating characteristic of the elephant is its grieving. The mother elephant has been observed to mourn the loss of a deceased child. The mourning ritual involves the mother, slumped in stature, trying to revive her child, seemingly in denial of the death. In other cases, elephants have been known to mourn a loved one for years after its death.
In some observations, every time an elephant walked past the place that a fellow herd member died, the elephant would pause for several minutes and even investigate the remaining bones. They never forget oo. Agyeeiiii, is it the reason why they are still mourning and ranting long after their defeat in the 2012 elections?
My late grandmother, Nana Yaa Abuakwaa used to tell me that, in most instances people pick up characters of people they are named after, and a staggering revelation I stumbled upon sometime ago about the elephant family seems to lend credence to this belief. Below are my findings:
Elephants spend 16 hours eating, and they consume 495 pounds of food a day. It has been observed that people who are associated with the elephant have insatiable appetite too. They chop waa waa waa, and would go to any length to satisfy their appetite including looting government bungalows, selling drill ships and looting their own treasury. You can give your own examples oo, I don’t want any trouble.
Elephants show excitement in interesting ways: when excited or angry, the elephant will release an oily material by name musth which is produced by a gland between the ear and the eye. The word “musth” also means madness, and usually when the substance is released, the elephant is in a dangerous state. Hmmm boi, no be me dey talk oo, the elephant can easily activate the all-die-be-die and womafunu mode. And could even go as far as a youth revolution oo. Eiwooo, madness paa, please nobody should mention Dompim Butcher oo. I don’t want any wahala.
The elephant is herbivorous, meaning, it lives on herbs. Hehehehehe, does this explain why some of the followers of the elephant live on herbs? Oh hoo, who whispered “thick smoke”? Na thick smoke be herb? Please I don’t like that. Kikikikikiki, na this be hard fact oo. Abi, this na be food for thought papa.
