Viral video of a lion roaming on the
streets of Thane turns out to be a video of Gujarat
9/12/2014
Author: Pawan Sharma
The following link article was uploaded
by one of the famous newspapers,
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/video-watch-lion-sighted-roaming-the-streets-of-thane-2042066
The article released on 8/12/2014 claimed
that a lion was video documented by a police official of Thane on the streets
of Ghorbandar road. Our team discovered that it was a video taken at Gujarat
and found it on you tube uploaded few days ago.
Following is the link of the video
available on you tube posted on 2/12/2014 ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxl6nPkz5AA
The video went viral on various social
networking sites and mobile applications becoming the wildest news of the year
end. Our helpline numbers received many calls asking for the authenticity of
the news and the video, responding to the hype and a pseudo-distress situation
among the citizens and animal lovers of Mumbai and Thane an investigating team
was set up with a report sent to the forest department.
The article claimed that a police
official had captured this video from his mobile and many suspected that a
captive lion had managed to escape from the SGNP (Sanjay Gandhi National Park)
Officials of the Thane forest department
and SGNP confirmed that all the lions at the park were in safe and sound in the
captivity.
Soon our PR team generated a message and
shared it to all possible contacts to counter the wrong message being spread
amongst the masses.
The message was as follows,
This news
and video has gone viral everywhere in Mumbai and Thane regarding a lion being
spotted at Ghorbandar road , Thane.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/
But our team has found it not from Thane,
Spoke to the forest department officials and the cops of that jurisdiction, nothing as such is reported.
All our captive lions are safe and sound at SGNP (Sanjay Gandhi National Park)
If we carefully watch and listen to the video we find Gujarati conversation,
Logically if it was video documented by our state cops the language would have been Marathi.
0.21-0.22 sec
Person says
" aavu Toh amme paan nathi joyu "
0.25 sec
Person says
" Bijo kya Bijo "
0.28-0.30 sec
Person says
"bass ubhi rakh ubhi rakh "
0.34 -0.35
Person says
" ubhi rakh ubhi rakh "
Please spread a word
Regards,
Team RAWW (Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare)
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/
But our team has found it not from Thane,
Spoke to the forest department officials and the cops of that jurisdiction, nothing as such is reported.
All our captive lions are safe and sound at SGNP (Sanjay Gandhi National Park)
If we carefully watch and listen to the video we find Gujarati conversation,
Logically if it was video documented by our state cops the language would have been Marathi.
0.21-0.22 sec
Person says
" aavu Toh amme paan nathi joyu "
0.25 sec
Person says
" Bijo kya Bijo "
0.28-0.30 sec
Person says
"bass ubhi rakh ubhi rakh "
0.34 -0.35
Person says
" ubhi rakh ubhi rakh "
Please spread a word
Regards,
Team RAWW (Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare)
Soon
after our messages started becoming popular and were appreciated by the
officials of the forest, police as well as other citizens and animal lovers.
