Watch Elephant take a S-Elphie with a GoPro

An elephant from Thailand grabs a GoPro for a selfie with his owner Christian LeBlanc on being gifted with a basket full of bananas, inventing the new trend of elphies among the animal kingdom

You must have heard of those perfectly timed wildlife captures of various rare animal encounters going viral over the internet but the another great chunk of this popularity lies with the selfie obsessed Instagram population who will do anything for a viral capture like the recent viral trend of a man being kissed back by the horse while taking a selfie. Apparently the animal kingdom has caught up with the trend as well, especially those motion sensing camera traps left in the wildlife for observing various changes to the system of flora and fauna, wherein they often end up with selfies taken by various curious animals such as monkeys, octopus, polar bears, etc.

Long trunk selfie with the big bro from Thailand

But this time around the animal kingdom has a new star who apparently took a genuine selfie and that too with a human.

Elephant Pachyderm is offered a banana by Canadian tourist Christian LeBlanc in Thailand

It was traveler husband and wife duo Christian LeBlanc on their tour to whole of east Asia who stumbled upon a bunch of elephants at Koh Pangan, Thailand, where they decided to buy one of the elephants a basket of bananas and the next thing they know is the elephant reaching out to Christian's mounted GoPro camera which was set on automatic continuous shoot mode resulting in an incredible photo moment of having a selfie with an elephant, inventing the new trending hashtag Elphie among the animal kingdom.

Elephant takes selfie with a GoPro with Christian Leblanc in Thailand on being gifted with a banana for an epic Elphie 

Shocked by what Christian and his wife had witnessed they decided to share the incredible elphie of a lifetime on Instagram where the pic got numerous accolades but it was only 2 months later that the photo of Elephant taking an selfie went viral on the internet via various social media channels. In the photo the elephant can be seen posing with his long majestic trunk for a selfie along with surprised Christian and how the arm length easily beats the Rock's long arm selfies. :D

How Elephants take their Selfies in the Wild

You got to say you don't often see elephants taking selfies and this one has to be one of the incredible wildlife encounters captured on camera this year. But apparently for travel enthusiast Christian LeBlanc the selfie clicked by elephant pachyderm wasn't that big of a shock who suspected it was elephants natural intelligence or curiosity to use the mounted GoPro like a selfie stick just like other tourists would do.

Trend setter Elephant Pachyderm who took a genuine "elphie" with a GoPro poses with Christian Leblanc in Koh Phangan, Thailand 

While Christian Blanc marks the selfie as one of his best experiences the happy traveler's Instagram is filled with selfies taken with various wildlife animals like for example with the great white sharks, tortoises, happy elephants and lots of incredible moments captured while venturing coasts of Asia with his GoPro accompanied by his beautiful wife.

Posing with happy elephants

Swimming with Great White Sharks

& Huge Tortoises

Hmm you probably might as well be wishing for a fortune selfie with an wild animal and yes why not after all the surprise power of the selfies is always worth capturing then random expected shots. ♫ (S-Elphie = Surprise Elphie or Selfie Elphie)