See An Incredibly Terrifying Elephant Chase After Safari Comes To Close For Comfort

If we ever look at elephant vs. tourist, we can assure you the elephant will come out on top every time. The elephant has the size, speed, and power to overthrow a tourist easily. Even a whole vehicle full of them, like we see in the video below. 

Elephant Sighting in South Africa 

The next YouTube video posted in this blog post takes us to South Africa. This video was filmed and shared by the La Tribe YouTube page. This channel is from Shashank and his family, who are sharing their memories and adventures. They share a wild video of an elephant getting mad during a safari tour. They share a short description of what happens below. 

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“To give you an overview we encountered an angry female elephant matriarch very unexpectedly, likely guarding her calf from danger. She was very territorial. Normally these elephants do a “mock charge” and give some warning so you don’t bother them. But she gave no warning. And kept running for considerably longer than elephants normally would.”

Elephant Vs. Tourists

At the start of this video, we see that we are at the Dinokeng Game Reserve in South Africa. At this game reserve, we will see animals such as lions, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, cheetahs, and leopards, to name a few. 

As the tour goes on, we see that one of the tourists grabbed their phone and started filming. An angry elephant is not too happy that they are driving through where he is walking. We see him powerfully running straight towards this vehicle! Not only does he have no fear, we see he is gaining on this tour car!

Finally, at 31 seconds, this elephant gets closer than he has this whole time, and we hear the sound of a tourist screaming out. They thought this powerful animal might catch up and overpower their truck. At this point, we see this elephant slow down and eventually stop. All he wanted was to terrorize these tourists so they would never return. 

How Many Elephants Are in Africa?

Elephants of the family Elephantidae reside in Africa and Asia. According to the World Wildlife Organization, it is estimated that there are 415,000 elephants in Africa alone. While this number seems large, the elephant population is estimated to drop by 111,000 in just a decade.

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, “African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is now listed as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.”