New King of the Jungle: Baby elephant vs 14 lions

In a desperate bid for survival, a young elephant showed tremendous courage to fight off a pride of 14 female lions.

A video shows them chasing the animal to a riverbank, before it fights back, reverses the tables and escapes.

The scene took place in Zambia's Norman Carr Safaris Chinzombo Camp, as tourists stood a short distance away, filming the spectacle that threatened to quickly turn bloody and gruesome.

Hercules – the new King of the Jungle – as visitors and staff now call the elephant – somehow became separated from his herd and had to fight overwhelming odds in the face of certain death.

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