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Safari guide stopping a charging elephant with his hand
Dramatic video shows a brave safari guide in South Africa stopping a charging elephant with a wave of his hand.
The guide prevented the bull elephant from trampling to death newlyweds Brett Larsen and Lulu Shi in Kruger National Park five days ago, the South African news outlet Independent Online reported Saturday.
Larsen said he was sharing the amazing footage to give the guide, named Dean, all the credit he deserved, the paper reported.
“Dean showed nerves of steel,” he said.
He said Dean stopped the elephant from charging at him and his wife three separate times without firing a shot.
The New Zealand couple was out walking on the last day of their honeymoon safari when they spotted the elephant at the top of a hill and stopped to admire it, according to the paper.
Suddenly, the elephant charged towards them.
“Dean, our lead guide, said, 'Don’t move,' so we stood there frozen in terror as the elephant charged down the hill at us,” Larsen told the paper.
“Straight away Dean had moved forward and become the target. He put his arm up and yelled 'Whoooa' and about (10 yards) away the elephant stopped dead in its tracks,” he said.
“With his right arm raised Dean was loudly commanding the elephant and it backed off.” Larsen said. “It was surreal. And what impressed me is that Dean didn’t raise his rifle once. This bloke stepped up to the mark and without hesitation and no fear put his body on the line.”
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This game drive guide was filmed giving a lesson in how to behave around wild elephants that nobody watching is likely to forget.
He was filmed displaying nerves of steel, remaining stock still as a huge adult elephant examined him with its trunk as he sat on an observation chair at the front of an off-road vehicle.
The video was shot by one of the tourists watching in silence behind.
The three-minute-long clip, which was recorded by a guest at the Toro Yaka Bush Lodge in Kruger Park, South Africa, starts with the camera focusing on a group of three elephants who are grazing.
At the beginning of the footage the first of the trio crosses the road, but as the second emerges it is distracted by the open-topped truck full of tourists.
Changing its route, the enormous creature heads towards the vehicle - and the tour guide who is sitting at the front.
Pausing in front of the truck, the elephant begins to touch the guide with its trunk, at one point the mammal even pushes the man's leg.
The guide, who doesn't flinch during the encounter, watches as the wild creature raises his trunk above the man's head and stares at him.
Turning its attention to the tourists, the large African Bush Elephant edges closer to the truck and rests its tusk on the guide's leg.
Touching the car bonnet, the creature reaches out towards the camera with its trunk and guests can be heard saying 'oh my god' to one another.
The video, which was uploaded to YouTube in 2013, concludes with the mammal breaking through some bushes beside the car and heading off to join its waiting herd.
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