Watch: Elephant eating golgappe at a puchka stall in Assam

Elephants love food. They use their trunk to even reach high trees for fruits, vegetables in search of food. But have you seen any elephant relishing spicy food item like pani puri or golgappa. A video showing an elephant enjoying golgappe has gone viral on social media.

A video from Assam’s Tezpur district has gone viral on the social media where an elephant can be seen enjoying the spicy pani puri.


In the viral video, the elephant can be seen standing and waiting patiently near a stall for his turn and gobbling up puchkas with its trunk one after another. The handler of the elephant can also be seen sitting on the back. In the video, the elephant holds the phuchkas with his truck and gulps it to enjoy the tangy taste and flaps his ear as he is expressing his joy.


The onlookers and netizens have been amazed with the cute-big golgappe eater.

Another similar video had gone viral few months ago, where an elephant was seen plucking and eating a jackfruit directly from a tree. Shared by IAS officer Supriya Sahu, the video showed an elephant trying hard to reach out for the jackfruit hanging on a high branch of the tree. After several try and hard work, the elephant finally managed to pluck the jackfruit down.

Sahu had captioned the post as: "Jackfruit is to elephants what mangoes are to humans... and the applause by humans at the successful effort of this determined elephant to get to Jackfruits is absolutely heartwarming.”