In November 2022, a reporter named Alvin Kaunda was filming a segment at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, Kenya. He was attempting to deliver a serious report about conservation while surrounded by orphaned elephants. One of the babies got curious and began exploring the journalist's ear with its trunk. Kaunda tried to stay professional and kept speaking, but the elephant eventually draped its trunk over his face and tickled his mouth. He finally broke character and burst into laughter.
The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust was founded in 1977 by Daphne Sheldrick in memory of her husband, David, the founding warden of Tsavo East National Park. Based in Nairobi, it runs the world’s most successful orphan elephant rescue and rehabilitation program. To date, the organization has successfully raised more than 320 orphaned elephants, many of whom have lost their mothers to poaching or drought, and eventually reintegrates them back into the wild.