{"id":228,"date":"2025-06-05T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:38:43","slug":"naughty-elephant-throws-at-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Naughty Elephant Throws At Tourist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watching wildlife can be confusing at times, especially when behaviors are hard to explain. In this video, an elephant\u2019s posing and gestures are a case in point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjO1A3g92rDMzELB3W9sz1NBzPOce5NP3H68iahkORCpBTXr0KQkYFOwDnP7kIZX0vHYoBQeUsj45hyphenhyphen6YdHypX7nwiptIHRfOiZTjKfkwpP105x6Tr3F9yJ2VhELL-ZAqTtUULAnOvvlejgZRWnCrSHnWu9YFif3x995Tr4ni5adVxPPpjMj2NnFIlIDR8\/s1600\/Naughty%20Elephant%20Throws%20At%20Tourist.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Regular contributor Deon Kelbrick submitted this video to Latest Sightings. He recorded the amusing, yet interesting, encounter on a game drive for Nkhoro Bush Lodge, in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve, South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"773\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ARm8gC9h30s\" title=\"Cheeky Elephant Throws Sand at Tourists\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Deon\u2019s video rolls, we find that a young female African elephant blocks the road ahead. So far, so good. Elephants block roads all the time in the African veld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, in this case, she appears to have chosen this spot for a bit of yoga? A mini-meltdown.? And why is she waving that branch in the air? Why are there leaves and branches strewn on the ground?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching wildlife can be confusing at times, especially when behaviors are hard to explain. In this video, an elephant\u2019s posing and gestures are a case in point. Regular contributor Deon &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}