While staying at the Norman Carr Safari Chinzombo Camp in Zambia, one tour group came face to face with an impressive act of survival.
Journalist Jesse Nash, accompanied by Long Island University Art Professor Dan Christoffel, Naturalist Steve Baker and Australian TV personality Nina Karnikowski, were on a game drive when they came across the heroic baby elephant.
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The 1-year-old became separated from his mother and unknowingly wandered into the vicinity of a pack of lions.
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Depsite being outnumbered, the young bull held his own, even when 3 of the predators pounced on his back and held on for sometime.
Innocent, a top safari guide with Norman Carr Safaris, was the one who drove the group to the location.
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“In the 30-plus years I have been a safari guide in Zambia at the Luangwe Park, never have I seen anything like this,” he said. “We were all so worried the baby elephant would be killed right before us.”
Hercules has since then found and rejoined his herd.