"Hercules" the elephant is the new ruler of the wilderness after the adolescent drove off 14 lions recently in Zambia. Guests to South Luangwa National Park happened upon a pride of female lions assaulting the elephant close to the Norman Carr Safaris Chinzombo Camp, and they got the assault on camera.

"Never have I seen anything like this," Innocent, a Norman Carr safari manage, composed with the YouTube video, which has amassed almost 200,000 perspectives. "We were all so stressed the elephant would be executed just before us. What a warrior," he said.