Two huge elephant got loose in Yekaterinburg (Russia) to frolic in the snow. Residents could not believe my eyes when I saw this couple, free-roaming the snowy streets after a successful escape.
The elephants decided to run away on January 23, when the family Togni (Togni), one of the largest Italian circus dynasties, was about to leave the third largest city of Russia.
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When circus workers were trying to load animals into the truck for shipment to the next destination, the elephants escaped.
Good giants 45-year-old Carl, and 50-year-old Roni was enjoying his freedom. Their walk did not spoil a temperature of minus 5C.
The cold couldn’t stop them having fun.
Local residents filmed the giants in the video, riding with them in the snow and struggling trying not to let them back in the truck for a two day trip to Saint Petersburg.
Circus Togni currently regularly toured in Russia, because a live animal is prohibited to perform at major concerts in Italy.
«Elephants have their own character and emotions, they are very smart, — said the representative of the Ekaterinburg state circus, which performed Togni. They went outside and were very glad to see the snow, trees and pedestrians, which they took for the audience. Roni stopped at one of the trees, while Carl walked to the pile of snow.»
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Traffic on some streets of Yekaterinburg had to block, yet playful giants jumped through the snow, reports The Siberian Times.
One person who was trying to keep the elephant’s trunk, the elephant gently rolling a few meters on the slippery road.
Circus workers finally were able to throw a rope around one of the front feet of the elephant, but it took a dozen people to get him back in the truck.
