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An elephant survived a 10M jump from Wuppertal's suspension railway in 1950

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Restored footage from 1902 of that railway compared to footage from 2015, side by side:

https://youtu.be/7TqqdOcX4dc

Here article without blackmailing cookie prompt and with a superimposed picture created after the incident occurred

https://www.vintag.es/2018/05/tuffi-elephant-and-her-1950-tr...

And elephant's wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi

> It appears, in the commotion all photographers forgot to do what they came for: take a picture.

What's a shame. They successfully scared the elephant so she jumped into the river, and forgot to take pictures of the event.

Unrelated to the article itself, but did anyone else think the tracking permission pop up on this site seemed odd? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it presented as “read for free with ads and tracking, or pay 2€ for Pro without ads and tracking”. There is no “do not accept” or “configure” option.

I wonder how that fits with GDPR?

I’m wrong, you have to click the “here” link in the middle of the light-grey text, which brings you to a page describing the analytics services they use. You then need to click the “cookie settings” button, then click the “details” accordion button in the modal, uncheck all of the options EXCEPT “convenience” as that’s used to store your cookie preferences, then click ”confirm selection”

That’s a lot more commitment to dissuading disabling tracking than normal, bravo outdooractive.com.

I'm slightly disappointed all that clicking doesn't bring you to a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard."

Here you are with a superimposed picture created after the incident occurred

https://www.vintag.es/2018/05/tuffi-elephant-and-her-1950-tr...

And elephant's wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi

I always heard elephants were the only land animal that couldn't jump.

It is a badly written article that doesn’t explain what happened well. But i am guessing this elephant barged through a wall, then fell.

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