{"id":372762,"date":"2025-12-26T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372762\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T10:05:10","slug":"quickcheck-did-a-herd-of-elephants-march-back-into-the-forest-after-a-stern-warning-from-perhilitan-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372762\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickCheck: Did a herd of elephants march back into the forest after a \u2018stern warning\u2019 from Perhilitan members?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A VIDEO showing Perak Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) personnel &#8220;scolding&#8221; a herd of elephants while telling the animals to go back to the forest, has gone viral. Did such an incident happen along a road in Gerik, Perak as claimed?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Verdict:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/apicms.thestar.com.my\/uploads\/images\/2025\/12\/25\/3690565.jpg\" onerror=\"this.src=\" https:=\"\" style=\"width: 100px; height: 76px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">TRUE<\/p>\n<p>Perak Perhilitan director Yusoff Shariff confirmed the incident, saying that their personnel were trained and have experience to prevent attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their aim was to get the animals to return to the forest to lessen any risks of roadkills or causing traffic issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must, however, insist and strongly advise the public not to make noise and provoke the animals, as they do not have our personnel&#8217;s experience,&#8221; he said when contacted.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, as the vehicle with the Perhilitan personnel was passing by a road in Gerik, the herd of five elephants was seen walking near the road.<\/p>\n<p>A man could then be heard shouting at the animals, while making loud noises to drive the pachyderms back to the forest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One, two, three, four, five&#8230; there, there&#8230; back, back,&#8221; the personnel were heard telling the animals while pointing to the forest.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the elephants could also be seen trying to charge at the vehicle, but stopped in their tracks before turning away and slowly marching back to the forest.<\/p>\n<p>The video is believed to have originated and uploaded by Mohd Hamdi Mohd Sayuti, who is a state Perhilitan wildlife assistant, on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>A Perhilitan personnel was then heard thanking the animals for their cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A VIDEO showing Perak Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) personnel &#8220;scolding&#8221; a herd of elephants while telling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,27531,201549,75562,201546,201547,21716,156458,128,201548,156456,156457,3349,338],"class_list":["post-372762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-elephants","tag-gerik","tag-herd","tag-perak-wildlife-and-national-parks-department","tag-perhilitan","tag-personnel","tag-quickcheck","tag-science","tag-scolding","tag-starverified","tag-true-or-not","tag-viral-video","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}