Elephants are amazingly social creatures, which means they don’t leave a member of the herd unprotected. This amazing footage shows a brave mother and another adult protecting a little calf from a pack of African wild dogs.

The lucky tourists were visiting Ingwelala, a nature reserve in South Africa, when the two adults repeatedly charged the dogs emitting loud trumpets, some of which, according to National Geographic served as a call for help from the rest of the herd. Soon enough help arrives and the wild dogs have no chance…