The elephant lives in a reserve of wildlife. Experts claim that the animal’s life was put into danger. The case, which happened in Kenya, is already under investigation.
A Spanish tourist is being investigated after publishing videos to drink a beer to an elephant in Kenya. In the images, which aroused a wave of contestation on social networks, man is seen to dump a can dthe alcohol by the trunk dthe animal.
O videowhich received hundreds of criticism, he wassince then, deleted from the tourist accounts on social networks. But the man already made a new publication where surge a offer carrots to rhinos – something that also does not era permitted.
the video with the elephant will have been recorded in em Laikipiano quénia. The animal shown in the images It’s called Bowa And it’s a male of friendly nature. He was rescued from Zimbabué, where he would be slaughtered in 1989 and taken to the Nature Reserve No Quénia When I was eight.
In the images published on social networks, the man is seen to dump a can of beer through the elephant trunk
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In the OL reserve Jogi They live about 500 elephants. The site is pioneering in the rehabilitation of orphaned animals.
The reserve itself has already classified o incident, which will have happened in the last year, as “Unacceptable” and “dangerous”with local workers to consider themselves “shocked” with the successful.
Winnie Kiirubiologist and specialist in the conservation of elephants, heard by the BBC, regrets the behavior of the tourist, who put the animal’s life at risk.
“About 95% of elephants in Kenya are wild and these publications on social networks are wrong because they give the impression that people can approach itfantes e fed-los. “
The Wildlife Service of Kenya is now to investigate the case.
