News Headline
For the Day of the Elephants, a Crash Course in Conservation
Source
National Geographic
Publication Date
2016-08-12
There is a moment of intense clarity just before a collision, when everything you’ve done to avoid it has failed… As the now inevitable impact approaches, time seems to slow right down. Or is it that your sense organs go into overdrive? Perhaps it is an evolutionary trait that turns up the dial on our senses in an emergency to glean as much data as possible so that – if you survive – you are better equipped to avoid the next one? Either way, it happened to me recently when I was run over by a four-tonner… no, not a four-tonne truck but an unusually angry elephant.