An elephant herd was captured protecting two baby elephants while crossing a road in South Africa.

The footage shows the calfs walking across a road in between adults of the herd.

The filmer writes: ''I went camping by myself and on one hot afternoon I came across this family of elephants.

''I like watching elephants so I waited around a bit watching them feed until they finally crossed the road right in front of me.''

The clip was filmed on July 1 in Kruger National park.