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This is the terrifying moment a six-ton elephant charges towards a safari truck and lifts it off the ground.

Footage shows the 13ft creature piercing the front of the vehicle with its tusks, forcing the guide sat up front to jump out.

The bull elephant came close to rolling the 11-seater truck over, but broke off just in time for the eco-students on board to escape.

A guide from a second vehicle can be heard shouting ‘get out, get out, get out, as passengers flee for their lives at Selati Game Reserve near Hoedspruit, South Africa.

The bull elephant was in season for mating and became enraged when the group got too close to its breeding herd.

When they are ready to breed their testosterone levels have been known to multiply by up to 60 times.

They become sexually aggressive and hostile towards humans and secrete a tar-like discharge on the same of their heads to warn of their arousal.

The students on board were taken back to their safari lodge and have received counselling. They were unharmed and the wrecked vehicle was later recovered by staff.

In 2018 a top safari ranger Mark Lautenbach, 33, was trampled to death by a sexually-charged bull elephant that had broken into a game park lodge on a rampage.

He had tried to move the angry elephant away from a tourist area at the Leopard Rock Lodge on the Madikwe Game Reserve.

But the hormonal six-ton bull charged the expert guide and professional wildlife photographer, trampling him to death out in the bush.

African elephants live up to 70 years and reach speed of 25mph. The only advice to escape an attack is to run in a zigzag and try and get behind trees or boulders.

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