In the last few hours, a very nice video of an elephant interrupting a live newscast.
In the images we see how the animal passes its proboscis over the face of the journalist Kenyan Broadcasting Company (KBC) Alvin Patterson Kaunda and how this one, although he starts trying to keep calm, ends up giving in to the funny situation.
This happened on Friday when Kaunda was in Kenya reporting on the impact of drought on animals. The African country is currently facing its worst drought in 40 years.
Sheldrick Wildlife Trusta Kenya-based organization working for the “rescue, rehabilitation and release of orphaned baby elephants” shared the video on their networks and wrote, “Everyone wants to be the star! Kindani was so inspired by the performance of Alvin who decided to steal his moment in the spotlight.”
On social media they got rid of the cool comments towards the journalist and the elephant protagonist of the clip. One version of the video has more than 7 million views on Twitter. A complete viral hit.
“The baby elephant knows exactly what’s going on here,” “This kid can focus on that, and most of us get distracted by Twitter,” and “notice what the kid is really saying, retention matters!” were three of the many comments that appeared under the clip.
More animal breaks
Something similar happened to a Chilean journalist a few weeks ago. An animal, in this case a parrot, explode in full mobile not to pet the man but to steal his wireless earpiece.
Nicholas Krumm He was doing a live show for Chilevisión with a small parrot on his shoulder until at one point the bird pecked at his headset and took it away. “My hearing aid was stolen”, Krumm expresses incredulously.
Already in the studio, the journalist provided the details of what happened and revealed that he was able to recover the headset, since the parrot left it on the floor.
“We were doing a midday office and in the meantime I felt a presence very close to me and I realized it was a parrot,” she said.
He added: “I try to warn the cameraman because it’s quite picturesque. It doesn’t happen every day (…) At the next gate he was there just now to look at us”.
Source: Clarin
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