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Watch: Elephant deploys ‘leopard crawl’ to bypass electric fence

Footage from South Africa shows the bull elephant stooping onto its belly and crawling beneath the wire to access a watering hole.

An elephant in South Africa’s Addo Elephant National Park has discovered that to access water protected by an electrified fence, one has to think like a leopard.

The accompanying footage shows the bull elephant garnering laughter and admiration while stooping onto its belly and advancing carefully beneath the lowest strand of wire.

“The lowest strand of wire is about 2 meters off the ground, with more strands above that,” Sri Lanka Elephant, which shared the footage last month, explained via Facebook.

“It allows smaller animals, buffalo, kudu, etc., to pass underneath and get to the water, and has been effective in keeping most of the elephants out. But then this bull worked out how to beat the system!”

Elephants are kept from the watering hole because the massive pachyderms can be destructive and prevent smaller mammals from reaching the water.

Sri Lanka Elephant, which did not provide video credit, suggested that the elephant was exhibiting its version of a “leopard crawl.”

Watch: Lucas Herbert’s caddie gets dinked in head by bottle at LIV Golf Adelaide’s Watering Hole

Keep your head on a swivel.

Keep your head on a swivel.

That’s what LIV Golf is likely to be telling its players and caddies heading into Sunday’s final round of LIV Golf Adelaide at The Grange Golf Club in Australia, where Brendan Steele sits at 14 under after the second round and one in front of Danny Lee heading to Sunday. Aussie favorite Cameron Smith sits only three shots back.

The fans at the Adelaide event have been the best for LIV Golf now for the second straight year, with people coming in droves Down Under to watch professional golf. With its own rendition of a party hole, the “Watering Hole,” there have also been plenty of scenes getting a bit too rowdy for a golf tournament, but who says we can’t have some fun?

However, as is the case often times when alcohol is involved, some fans took it way too far Saturday. Aussie Lucas Herbert was lining up a 6-foot par putt and knocked it in on the Watering Hole, and fans went berserk. So much so that when his caddie was putting the flag stick in the hole, he got smoked in the head by a bottle and went down.

All for fans celebrating and having fun at golf tournaments. That’s fun to watch and be a part of. But throwing things intentionally near players and caddies? Yeah, no thank you.

Here’s to hoping Herbert’s caddie survived the headshot. Herbert is 6 under after two rounds of play.

Carlos Ortiz and Mito Pereira are at 12 under individually, two back. In the team competition, Torque GC leads at 35 under by one over HyFlyers GC and IronHeads GC.

Watch: Small turtle shows lions who’s in charge of watering hole

The Africa lion is king of beasts, but a brave little turtle is not impressed. Watch as the turtle takes charge of its watering hole.

The Africa lion is king of beasts, but a brave little turtle is not impressed.

The accompanying footage shows a small turtle – more precisely a terrapin – swimming boldly up to a male and female lion in what initially seems a defense of its watering hole.

It’s worth watching to the end as the turtle becomes more emphatic with each encounter and the lions aren’t sure how to respond to the interruption of their important drinking time.

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The rarely observed interaction was captured by guide Reggi Barreto, 30, in the MalaMala Private Game Reserve in Greater Kruger Park.

Barreto told Latest Sightings: “I knew the lions would look for water to drink and we positioned ourselves in the perfect spot with the sunlight in our favor, ready for the sighting. What came next we did not expect – I was pleasantly surprised when the terrapin came out of the wallow towards the male and then the lioness.”

While the carnivorous terrapin might have been defending its territory, it’s more likely that the turtle detected blood on the facial hairs of the lions, which had just feasted on a zebra carcass.

Said Barreto: “It was an incredibly rare sighting for me to film – watching the terrapin approach the lions that had blood on their chins from the zebra. It seems as though the terrapin was actually more interested in getting some of that blood off the lions’ chins, as opposed to ‘chasing the lions away.’ ”

–Images courtesy of LatestSightings.com