A fed-up mamma elephant charged a group of careless tourists who drifted too close to its babies in Botswana’s wetlands and trampled a blundering woman, nearly drowning her, wild footage shows.

A group of Americans and Brits was on a safari canoe tour through the country’s waterways Saturday when their flotilla crept near young elephants — angering the several-ton mother, the Telegraph reported . 5

Footage captured by fellow safari-goers and obtained by the outlet shows the female elephant suddenly pivoting on the group as they waded ever closer to its family.

The tour guides frantically tried to back-pedal the canoes — known as mokoros, but it was too late as the elephant was practically upon them in an instant.

The massive animal knocked its trunk against the closest two canoe

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