I think I see what happened...he got between the large matriarch and the 'baby'. He's really lucky they stopped where they did.
I love his reaction...praying for forgiveness from the elephants. Strangely, it seemed to work.

Or maybe they are just Harley fans. I might have tried gunning it and getting the hell out of Dodge.

thugs

I didn't see the "praying" in the rolling video, but the stills that look like that make me pretty sure that he's actually doing a Thai "wai": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_greeting

As that link mentions, the wai can be used for greeting / thank you / sorry depending on the situation. The still looks exactly like the kind of posture I'd expect in a "sorry" wai -- so I bet that he was treating the elephant in an anthropomorphic way and apologizing to it.

One more interesting but maybe less relevant piece of information about wais -- the height of where you put your "praying hands" along your chest/head is used to denote rank / class differences or add extra deference. So thumbs at sternum is used for equal rank / age, thumbs at chin/mouth for bosses or elders, and thumbs at nose for monks. If you really fuck something up and want to apologize profusely you can wai with thumbs on your forehead.

...So, although I think the guy was doing an "apologetic wai" to the elephant, his thumbs were at sternum level, which suggests that he's treating the elephant as an equal and has a certain degree of nonchalance.

New paved road and they already pissed and shit all over it. No respect.

This is how I feel around e-bikes. Run them down.

The bike sounds like the growl of a tiger.

Damn, that's scary!

Thanks to Jurassic Park, this is also what I imagine dinosaurs sounded like.