The Sight of Wild Animals

Heroes Remember

The Sight of Wild Animals

Transcript

Tanzania is just amazing, the elephants, giraffes, lions, everything and I also seen some cobras, dead of course. When they drive into an area they're going to camp, in an open field beside, sort of beside a jungle but they're going to set camp, set up tents and all this stuff and when they first drive in with their vehicles, they start at the edge of the field and they drive around in ever diminishing circles until they get into the middle and then they start parking their vehicles. Driving in those circles was to get rid of the snakes that was in the grass. And they did, they had a half dozen of the big ones piled up when I finally got there, piled up in the middle. They'd run over them, the convoy, truck after truck after truck going over them. So yeah it was quite an interesting bit, but the animals there were just something, that's why I'd like to go back again too and just get another look at these live instead of TV. When you get chased by an elephant you always remember and we did in a jeep, well, Landrover, and we were touring the area and I guess we got too close to this herd and the big male came out after us and he hit the back of the jeep with his tusk, that's how close it was and if he had've hooked it, of course, the jeep would have been upside down. With the size of that beast and the landrover, if he'd have hooked into the top, metal top it would have turned it over but it didn't. He just hit it and we got away and laughed like heck about it later, you know, but I wasn't laughing at the time.

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Mr. Kish describes the different techniques used by the locals to rid the snake population.

Erl Kish

Mr. Erl Kish was born January 3, 1935 in Inverary, Ontario. Coming from a military family, with a grandfather in WWI and an uncle in WWII, Mr. Kish always felt the desire to join the military and made the decision to join the army first with the Royal Canadian Service Corp. In 1963, he took on the trade of mechanic and amalgamated with the Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers. After several tours and 30 years service, Mr. Kish held the rank of Sergeant until his retirement as Chief Warrant Officer. Returning to civilian life, Mr. Kish remained a mechanic until retirement. Mr. Kish joined the Legion and remains a proud member.

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