The kids in the picture above are on a safari. But it's not one of those $5,000-a-day luxury excursions for international visitors that their guide normally leads. It's for residents of a village of mud-walled huts in Botswana, which has one of the last thriving elephant populations -- and a history of human-elephant conflict that threatens both sides.
Correspondent Nurith Aizenman went along for the ride, which is part of a nonprofit's program to shift the dynamics. The kids told her all their previous run-ins with elephants had been terrifying.
So what did happen when they had a close encounter with an elephant on safari? To learn more, read the story.
Marc Silver Editor, Goats and Soda
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