एक करोड भन्दा बढी मनिसहरुले हेरीसकेको यो कुनै एक्सन फिल्मकोको भन्दा पनि खतरनाक फाइटको मुटु काप्ने दोहोरो भिडन्तको डरलाग्दो भिडियो

Young Elephant Drive Off 14 Lions

 Hercules" the elephant is the new king of the jungle after the youngster drove off 14 lions earlier this month in Zambia. Visitors to South Luangwa National Park came upon a pride of female lions attacking the elephant near the Norman Carr Safaris Chinzombo Camp, and they caught the attack on camera.

"Never have I seen anything like this," Innocent, a Norman Carr safari guide, wrote with the YouTube video, which has amassed nearly 200,000 views. "We were all so worried the elephant would be killed right before us. What a fighter," he said.

The video shows the lions clawing at the elephant and even leaping onto its back as it tries to fend off and evade them despite being hugely outnumbered. Incredibly, the animal—which the tourists and safari guides dubbed Hercules—escapes unharmed, according to the Norman Carr Safaris website. To find out more about the behavior of both species, National Geographic spoke with Joyce Poole, co-founder of the nonprofit ElephantVoices and a National Geographic explorer. Have you ever seen anything like this before? We don't see it so much up in East Africa, [where I work]. Only once have I seen anything remotely like that. Usually elephants are very much in control when it comes to lions. So if they meet lions, they will see them off. What was the experience you had? A family group [was] feeding in some palm trees, and there was a year-old calf that was on the opposite side of the palm trees from the adults, just resting and feeding. Suddenly a lion approached and just pounced on this baby, who then screamed very loudly and the mother elephant immediately came out from behind the bush and chased off the lion and called in reinforcements. That's the only time I've seen it. I know for the most part, at least in East Africa, elephants are definitely the dominant of the species and will see off lions very easily. In Botswana I know of some prides specializing in elephants. I think it's kind of a culture among lions that can get started in certain areas. They tend to focus on these immature elephants. (Also see "'Unusual' Pictures: Lions vs. Hippo.") I wouldn't think they'd attack a full adult. And I don't think they'd try to attack an elephant if it was really integrated in the group. So it's likely that this one, even if the group was nearby, that somehow it was physically separated.