Fact-checkers traced the viral clip to the TikTok account nature.love.ai (@nature.love636), which has about 13 lakh followers and is listed as based in the United Kingdom. The account’s bio states plainly that all its videos are AI-generated. It posts realistic-looking animal and disaster scenes, including a buffalo in a flooded river, a giant crocodile and a stranded ship. The elephant video, captioned “Mom teach a good lesson for young lad!!!”, shows a baby elephant reaching for bananas at a roadside shop in a CCTV-style frame, and it carries TikTok’s “Contains AI-generated media” label. It drew about 2.36 lakh likes. The scene was created with AI tools and does not show a real event. Cute or dramatic animal clips like this are often stripped of their AI labels and reshared as genuine CCTV footage, so the original account and platform labels should be checked before such videos are shared.