British tourists watch dramatic moment elephant charges rhino

A group of British tourists on safari in South Africa last week witnessed the dramatic moment a furious elephant charged a group of rhino.

In a of the rare scene, safari guide Tim Brown and his guests are watching the rhinoceroses at a mud wallow in Hluhluwe Imfolozi game reserve when suddenly one of the tourists spots movement in the bushes.

"See the bush moving now, what is it?" she asks.

"Elephant!" Brown shouts as he scrambles to move the safari vehicle to a better vantage point.

The trumpeting giant begins to charge the group of rhino which now flee the mud hole but not before the tourists snap some memorable photographs.

"Two of the Big Five in one photograph," Brown remarks.

In Africa, the big five game animals are the lion, leopard, rhinoceros (both black and white species), elephant, and buffalo. The term was coined by big-game hunters and refers to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot.