Elk are very protective parents, as one senior tourist found out when trying to take close-up photos of a female and her calf in Colorado. The cow took exception to the man approaching her young at the side of a road and sent him sprinting downhill to avoid being trampled.
The roadside encounter was recorded by a Colorado local named Kristy. She shared the footage with infamous Instagram account TouronsOfNationalParks, which posted her video this week.
