[Rain Man]

A couple of hours after the elephant sprint, we and the other land rover went back to the same area. They had calmed down, apparently, and wandered out onto the trail. There was a young elephant, and the ranger theorized that the young one had panicked about something and the older ones were chasing her just to stay with her.

The funny thing is that the young one came onto the trail right between the two land rovers. Our ranger decided to back up and give it some room, and started the land rover. The sound spooked the young one and it trumpeted, and boy oh boy one of the older elephants charged out of the trees toward our land rover and was not happy. The ranger kept backing up and the elephant stopped and calmed down. It was probably one of two times when I thought, "Hey, we could have a problem here." This photo is right when the older one was running out, just after the little one got spooked.