We were on a game drive in a jeep with three rows of seats with each row slightly higher as than the row in front of it. The driver warned us to stay seated in case he had to accelerate quickly. We saw a group of elephants with several baby's in the group. When we stopped to watch this guy took issue with us and stomped his feet and flapped his ears then charging a few feet closer. One of our group was a lawyer from England and from the back seat he yelled "lets get out of here". The driver held his ground as the elephant got closer and our back seat passenger got louder. He was almost close enough for me to touch his tusk when the driver accelerated away and the even louder voice from the back pleaded "can we please get out of here". The driver later told me that this was a young elephant just trying to exert himself. He said if some of the larger, more mature, we saw later got that close they would have easily flipped the jeep.
The next day when we pulled into camp we were warned there was a young male elephant that had chased two people up trees already that day. We never did see him but that night heard a lot of loud elephant sounds. I doubt the young elephant was trying to hurt anyone, if he was he certainly would be fast enough to get them, I think he just liked watching people scramble up trees.
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