--- title: Elephant Selfie Elphie description: An elephant took an amazing selfie. canonical: https://time.com/135825/elephant-takes-the-greatest-selfie-of-all-time/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-29T14:14:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:07.724Z og:title: PHOTO: Elephant Takes The Greatest Selfie og:description: Notice the photo is not trunk-ated in any way either. og:url: https://time.com/135825/elephant-takes-the-greatest-selfie-of-all-time/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: PHOTO: Elephant Takes The Greatest Selfie twitter:description: Notice the photo is not trunk-ated in any way either. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Elephant Takes The Greatest Selfie of All Time  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 29, 2014 2:14 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 29, 2014 2:14 PM UTC Pictured: Worlds first ELFIE as elephant takes selfie photo... [pic.twitter.com/HxKfFQUFTk](http://t.co/HxKfFQUFTk) — The Mirror (@DailyMirror) [May 29, 2014](https://twitter.com/DailyMirror/status/472002708942385152?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) A tourist managed to get the photo of a lifetime — even after dropping his camera. [The Daily Mail](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2642710/Is-worlds-ELPHIE-Elephant-joins-selfie-craze-tourist-drops-phone-wildlife-park.html) reports that when Scott Brierley, 23, visited West Midlands Safari Park in Bewdley in Worcestershire, England, he dropped his phone while taking selfies during a drive through the elephant enclosure. Park officials retrieved it and saw that 22-year-old African elephant Latabe (a millennial, obviously) touched the screen and managed to take a self-portrait. The man is lucky that the elephant cooperated for the selfie, unlike the one that Kim Kardashian [met in Thailand](http://time.com/45578/kim-kardashian-elephant-selfie/). Kim Kardashian being attacked by an elephant after trying to take a selfie. Greatest elephant ever. [pic.twitter.com/GwzRG0DHWh](http://t.co/GwzRG0DHWh) — Alex Goldschmidt (@alexandergold) [April 1, 2014](https://twitter.com/alexandergold/status/451030419928936448?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/135825/elephant-takes-the-greatest-selfie-of-all-time/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/135825/elephant-takes-the-greatest-selfie-of-all-time/"},"headline":"Elephant Takes The Greatest Selfie of All Time","datePublished":"2014-05-29T14:14:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:07.724Z","description":"Notice the photo is not trunk-ated in any way either","url":"https://time.com/135825/elephant-takes-the-greatest-selfie-of-all-time/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/135825/elephant-takes-the-greatest-selfie-of-all-time/","name":"Elephant Takes The Greatest Selfie of All Time"}}]}] ```