{"id":310,"date":"2025-06-12T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2025-06-12T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:18:00","slug":"worlds-most-skilled-elephant-soccer-player-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Most Skilled Elephant Soccer Player In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While his family grazed nearby, a young elephant took the opportunity to practice his soccer skills. To the amusement of his \u201cspectators\u201d, he proudly displayed the full range of his tricks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latestsightings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/f-5.png\" width=\"990\" height=\"557\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Game ranger Dylan Royal captured the action on film and submitted his \u201cmatch report\u201d to Latest Sightings. He filmed it shortly after leaving Tengile River Lodge in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"868\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6IdEsanuHqA\" title=\"World&#39;s Best Elephant Soccer Player\" 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>Dylan said that he had set off on his morning game drive hoping to find a leopard. However, after a short while, he came upon a breeding herd of elephants feeding.<\/p>\n<p>He decided to postpone his leopard goal, in favour of watching the herd for a while. As you\u2019ll see, he really scored with that decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While his family grazed nearby, a young elephant took the opportunity to practice his soccer skills. To the amusement of his \u201cspectators\u201d, he proudly displayed the full range of his &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-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}