# Elephant Liberator

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephant-liberator/169244>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 17, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephant-liberator/169244 "2003-04-17T03:42:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![pantom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pantom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantom)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephant-liberator/169244/1 "2003-04-17T03:42:38Z")

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From this week’s earthweek ([www.earthweek.com](http://www.earthweek.com)):

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> The matriarch of a herd of South African elephants deliberately opened a gate to free antelopes being held at a camp in the east of the country…members of the capture team…watched in amazement as the herd’s matriarch, known locally as Nana, carefully undid all the gate’s metal latches with her trunk, swung the gate open and stood back to watch the antelopes run into the night. Local ecologist Brendon Whittington-Jones told the news agency, “Elephants are naturally inquisitive, but this behavior is certainly most unusual and cannot be explained in scientific terms.”

Too 🆒 for words.

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**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephant-liberator/169244/2 "2003-04-17T05:45:34Z")

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I can’t think of anything to add, but feel impelled to inform you that glancing down the list of thread titles, I thought this one said “Elephant Lubricator”.

It took me 3 minutes before I realized why the OP had nothing to do with oils.