While photographing elk at sunrise in the Chattahoochee Valley of Great Smoky Mountains National Park this man turned around to see what appeared to be just a curious young bull sniffing a photographer's camera. he snapped a few frames of the apparent harmless encounter.

But the elk became more interested in making trouble than simply the scent of a camera. He started physically harassing the photographer, escalating to full on head-butts.

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