By Stone Martindale
Posted at Monsters and Critics
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Animal show host and Massachusetts native Jeff Corwin got a bit more than he was bargaining for when he and Anderson Coooper from CNN were "interviewing" a bathing pachyderm.
Corwin was being interviewed on air when suddenly the elephant grabbed Corwin's arm, who screamed while the elephant curled its trunk around him and forcibly yanked him down almost under the giant animal, as a stunned Cooper looked on and tried to extricate him. "Alas, in the end, the elephant got the better of me. Now I know that pachyderms not only like to gobble peanuts down their gullets, but the occasional elbow as well. Yikes!" said Corwin on the CNN live blog.
Corwin states that an elephant is "easily 15,000 times stronger than my meager self, and if she had wanted to, she could have done far worse than crushing a bit of ligament and muscle. Lucky for me, no broken bones, hopefully no connective tissue torn."
Corwin and Cooper were in southeast Asia reporting on various wildlife crisis situations, illegal poaching and black market of endangered animal parts in open air markets.
Said Corwin on the CNN blog: "Today in Cambodia, there may be only a few hundred of these intelligent, mighty and charismatic behemoths left. What a tragedy it would be to lose the Asian elephant. My advice to you, though, is if you're ever taking a bath with an elephant, keep your elbow out of its mouth!"
Corwin was being interviewed on air when suddenly the elephant grabbed Corwin's arm, who screamed while the elephant curled its trunk around him and forcibly yanked him down almost under the giant animal, as a stunned Cooper looked on and tried to extricate him. "Alas, in the end, the elephant got the better of me. Now I know that pachyderms not only like to gobble peanuts down their gullets, but the occasional elbow as well. Yikes!" said Corwin on the CNN live blog.
Corwin states that an elephant is "easily 15,000 times stronger than my meager self, and if she had wanted to, she could have done far worse than crushing a bit of ligament and muscle. Lucky for me, no broken bones, hopefully no connective tissue torn."
Corwin and Cooper were in southeast Asia reporting on various wildlife crisis situations, illegal poaching and black market of endangered animal parts in open air markets.
Said Corwin on the CNN blog: "Today in Cambodia, there may be only a few hundred of these intelligent, mighty and charismatic behemoths left. What a tragedy it would be to lose the Asian elephant. My advice to you, though, is if you're ever taking a bath with an elephant, keep your elbow out of its mouth!"
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