{"id":721,"date":"2018-03-27T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T06:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goshbuzz.com\/?p=721"},"modified":"2018-09-28T09:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T04:20:42","slug":"this-elephant-in-india-seems-to-have-smoking-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/this-elephant-in-india-seems-to-have-smoking-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"This Elephant In India Seems To Have Smoking Habit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video shot by Wildlife Conservation Society, India Program (WCS India Program) in which an elephant is appeared to be smoking has boggled the minds of scientists. In the video, the elephant is appeared as taking wood charcol &amp; blowing out ashes! This is incredibly unusual &amp; weird elephant behaviour seen for the first time. Interestingly, the video was shot in April 2016 &amp; has gone viral in March 2018 only (so late publicity!). Well, charcol ash is used for dental care in India, so it&#8217;s speculated that elephant was also doing dental care with charcol ash! If that&#8217;s true, we must say that this elephant is extraordinarily intelligent.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/egf9flC-nes\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/smoking-elephant-baffles-wildlife-experts\/article23358331.ece\">The Hindu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/environment\/flora-fauna\/smoking-jumbo-clip-spreads-like-wildfire\/articleshow\/63473047.cms\">Times of India<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shot by Wildlife Conservation Society, India Program (WCS India Program) in which an elephant is appeared to be smoking has boggled the minds of scientists. In the video, the elephant is appeared as taking wood charcol &amp; blowing out ashes! This is incredibly unusual &amp; weird elephant behaviour seen for the first time.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,46,6,4,70,9,5],"tags":[180,241,47,74,160,152,184],"thb-sponsors":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/This-Elephant-In-India-Seems-To-Have-Smoking-Habit-WinfiY-crunch.png?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9V90w-bD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}