What’s the Deal With the Elephant and Lady TikTok Situation?

Lawyer and founder of the organization Save The Asian Elephants Dustin McNair told Newsweek that “[t]hese endangered elephants can be deadly dangerous, particularly when provoked or abused.”

He explained that while “they don’t rush out of nowhere to attack people that pose no threat to their safety, or babies or to anything like that,” this incident was “surprising because it shows no provocation of the elephant…”

McNair added that the elephant returning to attack Maya’s body at the funeral was potentially a display of elephants’ “extraordinary cognitive abilities.”