A baby elephant at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, Kenya, interrupted a news reporter during a live report, and the hilarious video has since gone viral.
Alvin Kaunda, reporting for KBC, stood with several elephants by his sides and began his report about orphaned baby elephants who were losing their habitats on account of droughts and other impacts on the environment caused by human activities, and the need to preserve their natural habitat.
As he was speaking in front of the camera, a baby elephant became curious about the human standing in front. The elephant first moved its trunk on his back, then to his left ear, and slowly climbed up the top of his head as Alvin continued to report unbothered.
When the trunk finally got to his mouth, Alvin, with his reporting crew, erupted in laughter. He then stepped aside, hands on his mouth, and turned towards the elephant who was retreating.
“At first I felt the elephant’s trunk’s contact on my back but decided to keep going because I was doing my almost 10th take of my piece to camera,” Kaunda said. “I wasn’t gonna let anything stop me. Until the baby elephant stuck its trunk in my mouth.”
Alvin Kaunda was a student of Technical University of Mombasa, working as a reporter at the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) News department. The video spread like wildfire all over the internet. Unbeknownst to him, he became popular.
“I was surprised. I posted the video on my own Instagram page because I thought it was funny, like, I normally do. I honestly never expected it to go viral because it was a normal part of my routine,” Alvin said.
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