WATCH: This tracker dog behaves ‘brilliantly’ when Zim elephant charges

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Harare – Being charged by an elephant would get anyone’s blood pumping – but just look how well this tracker dog in Zimbabwe behaves!

A short video clip posted to Facebook by the Environmental Stewardship Trust shows tracker dog Polaris sitting motionless in the back of a vehicle as an elephant thunders towards the car in Zimbabwe’s Save Valley Conservancy.

His humans murmur as the vehicle speeds off and the elephant trumpets – but Polaris utters only the tiniest whine.

“He was very good. Never barked once,” said Lara Clemence of the trust, which is a leading conservation group in the Save Valley conservancy.

Polaris, who’s a Belgian Shepherd, is one year and six months old. He is still undergoing training that will turn him into a vital asset in the war against poachers.

Watch this dog’s ears as the elephant charges!

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