How emotions close our eyes and fools us.
This photo is viral on Social Media, especially WhatsApp claiming a Lioness was carrying her cub and was tired so an elephant carried the cup on it’s trunk to help her
Viral Message –
“The best photograph declared yesterday (courtesy – Crooger Sighting)
The Photographer was following a lioness carrying her cub & she was getting really tired after long walk in hot summer. An elephant showed up wanting to help the lioness. The elephant put its trunk down, the cub jumped up & the elephant carried the lion cub!! Courtesy and helpful nature by trustworthy friend at its best..!!”
This was story was published by a verified account
Kruger Sightings @LatestKruger
A crowd sourced service that allows you to increase your wildlife sightings in the Kruger National Park.
We were following a lioness carrying her cub & she was getting really tired. An elephant showed up wanting to help the lioness. The elephant put its trunk down, the cub jumped up & the elephant carried the lion cub!!⁰S28, 3km from S entrance
Tinged by Sloof Lirpa pic.twitter.com/aebvHwtrv5— Kruger Sightings (@LatestKruger) April 1, 2018
They tweeted “We were following a lioness carrying her cub & she was getting really tired. An elephant showed up wanting to help the lioness. The elephant put its trunk down, the cub jumped up & the elephant carried the lion cub!! S28, 3km from S entrance Tinged by Sloof Lirpa”
The first catch here is “Tinged by Sloof Lirpa”
In case you haven’t noticed in the image already, Sloof Lirpa when read back spells “apriL foolS” and the tweet was posted on 1st April itself.
But since this uses a mix of emotions like nature, motherhood, a cute cub, an animal helping another, entire net was fooled together. This tweet had 118,716 Retweets at the time of writing this article.
Since this is viral on Social media/ WhatsApp without “Tinged by Sloof Lirpa” so people are taking it seriously and forwarding it.
The Photo is edited/photoshopped. It’s made up of three different pictures
Many verified handle fell for this prank –
Incredible. From the Kruger National Park page:
“We were following a lioness carrying her cub for around 2kms when we could see she was getting really tired. Suddenly, an elephant showed up and looked as if it was wanting to help the tired lioness!“ pic.twitter.com/vEhKUmq9XM
— Fereshta Kazemi (@FereshtaKazemi) April 2, 2018
Incredible. From the Kruger National Park page:
“We were following a lioness carrying her cub for around 2kms when we could see she was getting really tired. Suddenly, an elephant showed up and looked as if it was wanting to help the tired lioness!“ pic.twitter.com/a2ambIZlym
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 1, 2018
Happy Easter! Frans de Waal: "We were following a lioness carrying her cub for around 2 Km… getting really tired. Suddenly, an elephant showed up. The elephant put its trunk down, the cub jumped up and the elephant started carrying the lion cub!!" pic.twitter.com/2yXHbrFCTg
— Amy Holden Jones (@aholdenj) April 1, 2018
"We were following a lioness carrying her cub & she was getting really tired. An elephant showed up wanting to help the lioness. The elephant put its trunk down, the cub jumped up & the elephant carried the lion cub!!
S28, 3km from S entrance
Tinged by Sloof Lirpa" pic.twitter.com/T4pibggwPC— Follow @PotechTV (@PhilipObin) April 1, 2018
This is nature at its best. A lioness exhausted from carrying her cub received support from a passing elephant, who dropped its trunk, the cub jumped up & the elephant carried the lion cub.
S28, 3km from S entrance Tinged by Sloof Lirpa pic.twitter.com/ezsSj1Dy9U— PigSpotter™ Pty Ltd (@PigSpotter) April 1, 2018
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