Elephant Trumpet!

While bush camping by ourselves along the Mara River in the Maasai Mara Conservancy, we came across these elephants on the trail back to camp.

[@Epsilonsama]

You were lucky it wasnt a Male Elephant. Those ones are hella aggressive. Female ones are territorial but will most likely try to scare you away and are less aggressive.

[@annehaight9963]

Elephants are not territorial. Females will protect their offspring and herd members, and are just as dangerous as males.

[@dannyhollingsworth1109]

Another nat geo watcher eh

[@PseudocidalTTV]

Imagine trying to "educate" someone on elephant behavior, that is clearly on the African continent studying, researching, learning, living life!!!!

[@aarongreenfield9038]

I remember as a kid at the zoo A fairly large African elephant getting pretty feisty with its trumpet, and let me tell you my hair stood on end, and It felt like a 1000 needles tingling down my neck and back, and it's something that still gives me goosebumps when I think about it to this day in my 40s. Don't piss off one of those things, they are a force of nature you don't want to get on the bad side of.

[@realLuisGiordano]

You will never want to stay near an elephant when it trumpets

[@fangbiangongjiang4004]

Amazing to see the elephants trumpeting!

[@stefanhernold345]

One sees that his left tusk is worn down because the elephant uses it for work (stripping bark, digging roots etc.)

[@Luschan]

Wow I didn’t know that! Elephants truly are amazing animals.

[@wonjaeyi9013]

I sweat, the way the elephant’s make growling sounds is so intense

[@Gj23jk2]

wasn't a charge. you just pissed them off. the matriarch is the oldest, biggest female and she's the one out in front you gotta worry about. all the other elephants take her cue. Edit: title was changed. You know you can make this video private if you don't like people commenting on it, right?

[@saidhussain1457]

The elephant is probably pissed of (not by the man ) but probably got agitated and the female slogan in front probably did the mock charge it's when an elephant is agitated and u popped out of its path so it moves it's trunk upwards and roar to scare u

[@saidhussain1457]

Elephant not slogan it was an auto correct

[@brittanymillerry2327]

@@saidhussain1457 they said they hate the smell of the metal box he’s driving around in.

[@finden3362]

So he fixed the video title and thats an issue too?

[@hymankazak]

ATF2009 SCREAMS!!!😱😱😱😱😱😂😂😂🤣🤣🐘 0:34

[@numberkidtheprimenumberfan1979]

0:32 0:34 Elephant

[@Emmanuel.Ladella]

Ghosts might scare you. Elephants kill you....

[@Pureignition58]

0:31 I don't know if it's the mandela effect or not but the elephants verbalisations communicate to me from the bull elephant in a threatening bass tone is, " GOOOO! " and like a jazz trumpet the mother saying, " NOW! "

[@jakemar2326]

what do you think the mandela effect is

[@Altair11125]

Jesus! Now I get why horses were afraid of charging against elephants. Its shocking experience.

[@KubanKevin]

Side note: your wrangler’s ticking

[@peterkennett33]

Not sure how bad that is. I just had it checked out in a good shop, and they found nothing wrong, then I drove it to Utah and did the Elephant Hill trail for two days and it performed flawlessly. Not sure what the ticking sound was.

[@alexmckoy8221]

@@peterkennett33 sounds like a healthy pentastar. Wranglers just have ticky engines.

[@peterkennett33]

Over the last two years the ticking went away. The rig is running great!

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

When the big fella says "GO !" the answer is "Yessir ! Right now sir !" 😂

[@Turq-bk9nr]

Where is this?

[@TylerBlack863]

0:36

[@TylerMcNamer]

They don't take too kindly to strangers.

[@peterkennett33]

Agree. But my tent and camp gear was down this trail along the river and we had to get there before sunset. We had no other option but to drive past. About 45 minutes later these same elephants came through the part of forest my wife and were camping, about 1,000 feet away. We jumped in the Jeep and waited in case they got closer, but they continued to the river, crossed it, and were gone.

[@Isabella-ir7td]

Gasp an elephant 🐘 trumpet pawoo