{"id":249,"date":"2025-06-07T14:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:56:38","slug":"watch-extremely-close-elephant-encounter-stuns-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Extremely Close Elephant Encounter Stuns Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proving that curiosity is not limited to humans, an elephant approached a safari vehicle. What followed was a remarkable display of gentleness and tolerance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latestsightings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumb-1.png\" width=\"1872\" height=\"979\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This video was filmed by Kevin van der Linde and sent to Latest Sightings by Eswe Ras, the person seated on the tracker seat. The interaction happened in the Balule Private Game Reserve in Limpopo Province, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"773\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qAX2yfLCtq8\" title=\"Extremely Close Elephant Encounter\" 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<p>Eswe told Latest Sightings that, as a qualified guide, he would do tracking duties on game drives. On this occasion, shortly after leaving camp, they stopped to view a group of elephant bulls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proving that curiosity is not limited to humans, an elephant approached a safari vehicle. What followed was a remarkable display of gentleness and tolerance. This video was filmed by Kevin &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-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}