A fed-up mamma elephant charged a group of careless tourists who drifted too close to its babies in Botswana’s wetlands and trampled a blundering woman, nearly drowning her, wild footage shows.
A group of Americans and Brits was on a safari canoe tour through the country’s waterways Saturday when their flotilla crept near young elephants — angering the several-ton mother, the Telegraph reported.
An elephant charged at a tourist group that steered too close to its young. Namushanawa Nyambe CNP
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Footage captured by fellow safari-goers and obtained by the outlet shows the female elephant suddenly pivoting on the group as they waded ever closer to its family.
The tour guides frantically tried to back-pedal the canoes — known as mokoros, but it was
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