[Ads-l] Antedating of An Elephant Never Forgets
Pete Morris
mr_peter_morris at OUTLOOK.COM
Tue Apr 13 00:30:13 UTC 2021
I found this one from 1849
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Wonders_of_the_World_in_Nature_Art_a/NQRDAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&kptab=overview
It is said that when they have been once attacked by men , or have
fallen into a snare , they never forget it , and seek for revenge on all
occasions
I also found a couple of others of dubious date, allegedly written in
the 18th century, but not published until a lot later.
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Social_Hours_with_Friends/WRhgAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&kptab=overview
When I was in England in 1771, I went to see the elephants ...
The Keeper said that I had greatly displeased the elephant and that he
would never forget.
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Reasoning_Power_in_Animals/FWhZAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&kptab=overview
Some recollections of one Mr Corse, some anecdotes including:
Mr Corse also gives an account, from satisfactory evidence of another
old elephant, which being caught in 1765, turned loose again in 1767,
and retaken, again, in 1782, recollected, after a lapse of fifteen
years, the habits of her former servitude.
Same book notes that
Pliny relates that elephants in their old age have recognised men who
were their drivers when young. [Hist. Nat. viii 5)
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