Elephants, despite their reputation as peaceful creatures, can be rather aggressive. A little girl was recently the target of a jumbo’s wrath when she attempted to capture it with her phone.
The giant is seen surrounded by a throng of young kids filming him in a now-viral footage of the event. While the elephant appears amicable at first, it eventually grows irritated by the constant attention. While a girl touching the tusker’s trunk was spared, the tusker was not so kind to the girl photographing it with her phone.
The elephant slammed the phone on the girl’s head with its trunk. The giant tries to manoeuvre its trunk to reach the phone, which is now laying on the ground, while the throng gathers to see the girl’s injuries.
Too far, the video has got over 5.2 lakh views. The jumbo’s fury left users speechless. Many individuals remarked they had never seen an elephant perform anything like this before.
Others suggested that the animals be relocated to a wildlife refuge. Some others commented that they understood how the jumbo felt. Several users compared the tusker photographers to paparazzi. Some claimed that the elephant was irritated by the infrared light from the camera.
This isn’t the first time a video of an elephant destroying humans has gone viral. In South Africa, CCTV showed a jumbo flipping a car with a family inside in January of this year. The family was travelling down the road after returning from a nature excursion when the tusker came and aggressively overturned their car. Fortunately, they only sustained minor injuries.
