Elephant vs. African Wild Dogs at Botswana Watering Hole

This may be the best thing I’ll ever put into the world. In July, we spent a few glorious weeks in Botswana, the trip of a lifetime. We were staying in Gomoti Tented Camp in northern Botswana. There’s a watering hole right in front of the camp, right outside the dining area. As we were finishing breakfast, an impala shot by the watering hole, chased by a wild dog. That wild dog decided to stop running after the impala and hang out at the watering hole. Soon he was joined by about 15-16 packmates. They were all wandering around or lying down or drinking, just chilling, when a solo elephant walked seemed to want the watering hole to himself, but the dogs knew they could literally run circles around him and not get hurt, so they don’t slink off. What occurs for the next six minutes is him trying to drive them off (“Damn kids get off my lawn!”), them messing with him by creeping a bit closer, him shooing them off again, and the whole thing becoming kind of a game to both of them. Anyway, watch t