Originally Posted by osiris

Finally There I was....

standing next to a Mastodon who completely ignored me, as he tore down and devoured a tree. I could see my reflection in his big brown eye.

Unfortunately I was standing up wind of the matriarchs who were caring for the young ones out in a field some distance away. When they caught a whiff of me they trumpeted alarm...

and that male then took me in his trunk and battered me to death upon the ground, stomping me in the end for good measure.

He then went back to eating his tree.