A scary video has emerged of a mother elephant running after a safari car to protect her young in Jim Corbett National Park in India.

The footage, shot in 2015, shows the pachyderm watching the car before she sprints towards it while trumpeting.

"We stopped at a distance after seeing this elephant herd, as there were babies and elephants are extremely protective about their young ones," the filmer wrote online.

"However our expert Corbett driver told us that the biggest one, the matriarch, who was standing right at the back of the herd and seemed absolutely unaware of our existence will charge at us."

"And we said she is not even looking in our direction, but we knew that our experienced driver must be sure of what he had predicted and so we waited... and just in a bit her stance changed and from ignoring, she suddenly started running towards us, trumpeting throughout and we were glad that we had maintained our distance from the very beginning," he added.

We stopped at a distance after seeing this elephant herd, as there were babies and elephants are extremely protective about their young ones. However our expert Corbett driver told us that the biggest one, the matriarch, who was standing right at the back of the herd and seemed absolutely unaware of our existence will charge at us. And we said she is not even looking in our direction, but we knew that our experienced driver must be sure of what he had predicted and so we waited... and just in a bit her stance changed and from ignoring, she suddenly started running towards us, trumpeting throughout and we were glad that we had maintained our distance from the very beginning.