The elephant - my friend or?

An American woman and her baby daughter were trampled to death by an elephant while on a forest hike in Kenya.

This is pretty horrible death. Elephants are usually docile and attack only when provoked, like any other creature would do. I cannot imagine an elephant, after seeing a woman and child in the distance, to go there and attack them. This does not make sense. Probably, the woman and the child were playing with a baby elephant and the elephant tried to protect its baby.

The moral of the story: Stay a safe distance from wild animals.