{"id":205881,"date":"2025-08-30T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-tourist-pouring-beer-down-elephants-trunk-in-kenya-sparks-anger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:00:48","slug":"kenya-tourist-pouring-beer-down-elephants-trunk-in-kenya-sparks-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-tourist-pouring-beer-down-elephants-trunk-in-kenya-sparks-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Tourist Pouring Beer Down Elephant&#8217;s Trunk in Kenya Sparks Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><strong>Several investigations have been launched after a Spanish man in Kenya posted videos of himself pouring beer down an elephant&#8217;s trunk &#8211; sparking anger on social media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">He was filmed in a wildlife reservation drinking from a can of Tusker, a popular local beer, before giving the rest of it to the elephant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;Just a tusker with a tusked friend,&#8221; he captioned one clip posted on Instagram, which was later deleted from his account after a backlash from Kenyans in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508290322.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several investigations have been launched after a Spanish man in Kenya posted videos of himself pouring beer down an elephant&#8217;s trunk &#8211; sparking anger on social media. He was filmed in a wildlife reservation drinking from a can of Tusker, a popular local beer, before giving the rest of it to the elephant. &#8220;Just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":205882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,15139,20977,3496,4688,430,257,28893,254,9617,2584,28498],"class_list":["post-205881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anger","tag-beer","tag-elephants","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-pouring","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks","tag-tourist","tag-trunk"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}