Viral video: Friendly elephant suddenly flies into fit of rage and attacks girl

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An elephant who initially is quite friendly as a group of tourists watch the jumbo along with its mate, but suddenly flies into a fit of rage as when one of the girls takes a photograph on her smartphone.</p>
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The elephant lashes out at the girl with its trunk and sends her reeling backwards while the smartphone goes flying out of her hands.</p>
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The group is caught unawares and quite scared as the elephant then tries to go for the phone with its trunk.</p>
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Some netizens are of the view that the infrared light of smartphones is annoying to animals.</p>
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