Elephant dances, feasts on good food on its birthday as people sing ‘Happy Birthday’

A heartwarming video of an elephant feasting on good food and dancing its heart out on its birthday has gone viral on social media. The huge mammal seems content and shakes its trunk as a display of joy as people sing the birthday song.

The viral video shared on X, shows a huge plate of all kinds of fruits kept for the pachyderm. The birthday boy continues to eat the delicious food as people sing the ‘Happy Birthday’ song. It lifts its trunk and shakes it as if to thank everyone.

An X user shared the video and wrote, “In India, they celebrate their elephant's birthday.” As expected, the adorable video is now going viral with over 531K views and 12K likes and the numbers are only increasing each second.

Every morning, the elephant comes out of the temple and blesses the devotees. As per reports, the elephant is named ‘Akhila’ and celebrated its 22nd birthday in a temple in Tamil Nadu. As elephants are very clever, it seemed quite happy with the celebration and relished the fruits offered on its birthday.