Viral video of a lion roaming on the streets of Thane turns out to be a video of Gujarat

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/video-watch-lion-sighted-roaming-the-streets-of-thane-2042066

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.