{"id":132963,"date":"2025-09-10T04:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132963\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T04:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:59:10","slug":"tourist-gives-beer-to-elephant-things-got-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132963\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist gives beer to elephant; things got out of control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish tourist&#8217;s unusual action in Kenya recently provoked a backlash after he shared an Instagram video showing him pouring a drink down an elephant&#8217;s trunk, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC confirmed the footage was genuine and showed the man emptying a can of Tusker, a popular local beer, into the elephant&#8217;s trunk.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Outrage has erupted after a viral video showed a Spanish tourist pouring beer into the trunk of a tame elephant named Bupa at Ol Jogi Conservancy, Kenya.<br \/>Though the incident occurred last year, it surfaced online recently, triggering backlash from conservationists and citizens.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wb1GQzOmj7\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Wb1GQzOmj7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liberty Wire (@LibertyWirein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertyWirein\/status\/1962484800113287427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">September 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He had captioned the post, &#8220;Just a tusker with a tusked friend,&#8221; but intense criticism from Kenyans in the comments compelled the tourist to delete his video, the BBC reported, though the event has since raised broader concerns about wildlife safety.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1086887 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kenya_World_Elephant_Day_58399-56dcb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/>Elephants cross a road at Tsavo-East National Park, Voi town in Taita-Taveta County, Kenya, on Aug. 7, 2025 (AP\/Brian Inganga)<\/p>\n<p>The Ol Jogi Conservancy, a wildlife refuge in the central Kenyan county of Laikipia, expressed its alarm regarding the event. A statement from the conservancy cited by the BBC described the incident as, &#8220;It was unacceptable, dangerous and against our values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and other agencies are currently investigating the matter.<\/p>\n<p>One staff member, using the pseudonym Frank, commented on the situation. The staffer told the BBC, &#8220;This should never have happened. We&#8217;re a conservation group and we can&#8217;t allow this to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also stated, &#8220;I was shocked by the behaviour of our unidentified guest. We don&#8217;t even allow locals to go near the elephants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The elephant given the beer has been identified by the KWS as Bupa, a friendly male, the BBC reported. The service added that the animal was rescued from a mass elephant cull in Zimbabwe in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Spanish tourist&#8217;s unusual action in Kenya recently provoked a backlash after he shared an Instagram video showing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-132963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}