Watch: Playful elephant involves tourists in mud-bath experience

When you’re inside a vehicle watching an elephant enjoying a mud bath, it’s probably smart to keep your window rolled up.

The accompanying footage, captured in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, shows a young elephant using its trunk to toss mud and water onto its body.

Tourists are enjoying the close encounter but quickly become part of the experience when the elephant flings the wet stuff directly into their faces.

“Oh, man, I got soaked,” one of them says.

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Herd of Elephant stationary
“An amazing experience with an elephant bull which came up to drink water right next to us and then gave himself, and us, a mud bath.”
Kgama Drive, 1.5km from Ntswe Drive junction
5/5
Tinged by Heinrich pic.twitter.com/P07mdAaqI9

— Kruger Sightings (@LatestKruger) March 29, 2023

Their good-natured reactions are a fun aspect of the footage, captured by a tourist named Heinrich and shared by Kruger Sightings.

The window is rolled up at the 26-second mark.