The elephant was a curious pachyderm and followed his persistent quest with a guileless intensity.
“More lucky than smart,” said some of the other elephants as he blundered his way toward another piece of knowledge. They nodded their heads in his direction with the heavy weight of caution and warned their small ones that too much thought would make them strange.
“An elephant wades in water,” they would sagely say, “only if the mudhole is wide enough.”
And the little ones would watch him, as they stood between the legs of their parents, and wish that they could follow.