Editing Jeff Corwin (section)

====Close encounter with elephant====
In filming a segment of [[CNN]]'s ''[[Planet in Peril]]'' with [[Anderson Cooper]] at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center near [[Phnom Penh]], Cambodia, on March 22, 2007, Corwin was the victim of a playful elephant. This rough-play consisted of the elephant putting Corwin's elbow in its mouth and wrapping its trunk around his arm, and swinging him around. He yelled as the elephant shook its head, releasing and throwing Corwin into the shallow water in which they were standing.  Corwin noted that the pain was so overwhelming that he nearly blacked out, and that his arm still does not work correctly. Corwin later posted the following summary of injuries that resulted:

{{Cquote|To this day my arm doesn't work right.  We tend to look at elephants as these very kind gentle giants, like Dumbo and Jumbo from the cartoons.  But the truth is, elephants are complex mammals with a huge array of emotions, from happiness to anger to jealousy, and when I turned away, this was his way of telling me he didn't want to be ignored. The trunk of an elephant can lift a 900-pound tree limb.  You do not want to be that close to one when he's having a bad moment.
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{{Cquote|Truth is that elephants are 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 bone fracture, hopefully no connective tissue torn (we'll have to wait till I get home to find out about that).<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2007/03/what-its-like-to-be-tossed-by-elephant.html Anderson Cooper 360 Blog]. Cnn.com (2007-03-23). Retrieved on 2012-09-05.</ref>
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