# Good elephant news
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-elephant-news/391742
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 11, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-elephant-news/391742 "2007-02-11T17:42:01Z")
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-elephant-news/391742/1 "2007-02-11T17:42:01Z")
Villagers whose food is stolen and are injured by elephants [rescue calf.](http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070211/asp/jamshedpur/story_7377207.asp)
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### Author:  [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-elephant-news/391742/2 "2007-02-11T18:19:14Z")
Sounds touching, but it’s hard to infer any motivation from the villagers beyond self interest; the well would be useless if poisoned by a rotting elephant corpse.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-elephant-news/391742/3 "2007-02-11T18:39:16Z")
[QUOTE=zagloba]
it’s hard to infer any motivation from the villagers beyond self interest;
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At least they ran like hell instead of trying to sell him to the circus. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-elephant-news/391742/4 "2007-02-11T19:17:06Z")
From the story:
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> The trick worked and the elephants calmly left the place but kept observing the developments near the well from a distance of about 1 km.
Can elephants see that far? I thought they had pretty poor eyesight.