Elephants charge at motorist blocking way on highway

An amicable animal, when provoked, can turn ferocious. This happened recently with a group of people, who were trying to act all cool by driving their car close enough to a herd of elephants.

In a video shared by IAS Officer Supriya Sahu on microblogging site Twitter, a car went dangerously close to the elephants and ended up being attacked by them. One of the persons sitting in that car jumped while other vehicles fearfully moved back.

"Totally unacceptable and barbaric behaviour by some idiotic onlookers .Just because Elephants are gentle, they are being magnanimous to these uncouth minions otherwise it does not take much for these gentle giants to show their power. Video-shared. Believed to be in Hasanur Karnataka," Sahu wrote on Twitter.




The video was posted on Monday, and has since attracted 20,000 views.

The video has also left the opinions divided on the microblogging website.

"What is barbaric here? I don't find any fault of Car owner. His car didn't even touch them instead he tried for uTurn but couldn't do so," wrote a user.

Another user wrote," Humans thinking, we are the only ones with rights.. It's saddening to see so much traffic cutting across forests.. Cant we leave the jungles alone? if so important, we can always have hanging bridges for vehicles. or best avoid roads and prefer ring roads.asked what was barbaric in the video, to which a thread of tweets explained him the matter."

"Don't honk.. don't shout or make noise, don't try to take videos.. should have stopped as soon as he saw elephants but he tries to pass them!," a third user wrote.