Watch: Elephant Attack From a Survivor’s POV | National Geographic

after the last group of elephants had
crossed the glade the final elephant
turned and began to run towards us ears
flapping and trumpeting which is usually
a sign of a bluff charge for about a
hundred and fifty meters away
very unusual behavior we started backing
away which is usually enough to show a
displaying elephant that we’ve got the
point slowly at first and then faster as
it became apparent that he was not going
to stop until we were all running for
cover glancing over my shoulder I could
see he was gaining on us
I could be the first one he reached he
so I turned to face him still running
backwards mumbling – Carly did two
things you turn the camera off and it
sent me into a high-speed backward roll
being kicked like a football one kick
hit my hand and turned the camera on
again but it knocked it out of my hand
and the video caught a few frames of me
under the elephant as it flew through
the air then landed in the grass the
mean team Rangers fired three shots in
the air and the elephant immediately ran
away amazingly x-rays in the nearest
hospital showed no broken bones but
while I was recuperating we had time to
consider why this elephant who we named
Carly the courageous had run a hundred
and fifty meters from a position of
safety to tackle a perceived threat it
seems that the herd I was filming had
previous experience of poacher attacks
and had been unnerved by the charcoal
work as a previous day on the day of the
charge hearing the locals shouting
apparently led them to think they were
under attack
prompting Carly to risk his life
charging what he mistakenly saw as a
threat to the herd
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