“On sighting an elephant Selous would instantly remove his trousers as he found it easier to pursue them in his underpants.”
As one does.
The quote is from Tom Quinn, Shooting’s Strangest Days.
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Doesn’t everyone?
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.
Groucho Marx
I wonder if this state of predatory undress was specie specific to elephants or would he remove his trousers to hunt lions, for example? I imagine, although I cannot explain why, that hunting carnivores in one’s underwear would be a much more dangerous proposition that slaying a relatively inoffensive herbivore like an elephant,
akaky – “I imagine … that hunting carnivores in one’s underwear would be a much more dangerous proposition that slaying a relatively inoffensive herbivore like an elephant,”
Again, how would the carnivores have got into one’s underwear? And would one have vacated it first?
Perhaps the elephants were calmed by a view of his trunk? Well, they’d assume it was a trunk.
Perhaps doffing his trousers before his big adventure avoided the need to have them cleaned later.
a relatively inoffensive herbivore like an elephant,
Elephants may be herbivores, but they can be notably belligerent. And a peeved elephant is extremely dangerous.
Particularly if he is in your underpants! The moral of the story is that is you find an elephant in your underpants, be extremely nice to him so that he does not become peeved.