This is the terrifying moment a furious elephant charged at and lifted a boat filled with British tourists in a crocodile-infested river in Botswana.
Footage shared online showed the boat's skipper taking the craft in too close to a female elephant that was feeding on the reeds in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, forcing him to beat a hasty retreat when it began to charge.
The guide appeared confident whilst bantering with guests as they reversed back down a narrow water channel but then their engine appears to have cut out.
As the elephant closes the gap, the guide looks back confidently over his shoulder and shouts out to the tourists: 'When she comes close we are going to zoom forward'.
But when he turns back he is shocked to see how quickly the elephant has narrowed the gap and quickened its pace with the sole intention of overturning the intruding boat.
