This was the moment an elephant came face-to-face with a drone. <br /><br />The baffled behemoth tried to hold its ground against the intruder but eventually fled. <br /><br />The incident was captured at Periya Thadagam forest in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India by wildlife photographer and activist Bhaskaran TTS. <br /><br />The drone found the 30-year-old female elephant close to the herd she led. Seeing the flying machine as a threat she tried to shoo it away assuming an aggressing posture. <br /><br />She aggressively raised her trunk and trumpeted a few times but changed her mind later and walked away with her herd following her. <br /><br />Indian officials are using drones to stop elephant hers from straying close to human habitats.<br /><br />They say the herds mistake the buzz of the drones to an imminent attack by a swarm of honey bees and flee. <br /><br />Two weeks ago, officials used two drones to stop an elephant herd from getting close to a village and drive it deep into the forest in Coimbatore. <br /><br />Deepak Srivastava, Chief Conservator of Forests, Coimbatore Circle, said: “The buzzing sound of the rotors - similar to the buzzing of honey bees - made the elephants retract further into the reserve forest.”
