by Huge Elephant Called Jumbo Chases Car After Being Sᴘᴏᴏᴋᴇᴅ By Speeding Driver
This is the moment an enormous elephant stormed after a car after being was by speeding vehicles on a road in Kenya.
Photographs captured the enraged matriarch towering over the car as it appeared ready to trample before the car sped off. Incredible images were taken by Mwangi Kirubi, 43, who was on a camping trip and was carefully making his way down the road that had a 25mph speed limit in place, so as not to disturb or ꜰʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴ the park’s wildlife. The two responsible cars slowly making their way along the path, which were Kirubi and the rest of his party, had briefly stopped to take photos. Suddenly, two reckless vehicles decided to race past, breaking the speed limit, startling the giant female into defensive mode, and ᴇɴᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀɪɴɢ other road users. ‘We had split into two groups and were in two cars,’ he recalled. ‘We were sat peacefully enjoying the company of the elephants until two other vehicles came speeding towards us and hooting for us to make way for them.’ As the powerful animal approached the roadside, she appeared to target the nearest vehicle and looked set to defend her territory after her sᴄᴀʀᴇ, before the car in question accelerated away to safety. But that didn’t stop the elephant from pursuing the vehicle until it had zoomed off. The sᴄᴀʀʏ scene was snapped by Kirubi, who was further down the road, having parked up to take wildlife photos prior to the incident. The car the elephant took a dislike to was filled with the rest of his friends, as he watched the events unfold.
“I have no idea where they were headed, but they were in a hurry and ignoring the 40kph [25mph] speed limit of the park”. “I did not think that it had agitated the elephants too much, until from my car I saw the herd’s matriarch approach the other car, which contained the other photographers and ᴛʜʀᴇᴀᴛᴇɴᴇᴅ to ᴀᴛᴛᴀᴄᴋ.”Thankfully, the car was able to get to safety and left the matriarch to return to her herd. Yet further proof that humans simply do not mix well with the natural world.
