The San Diego Zoo Safari Park's elephants raced to protect their calves with an "alert circle" when a 5.2 magnitude ...

Known to pachydermologists as an "alert circle," the female adults quickly encircled their young back-to-back, tusks and trunks outward.

Ndlula, Umngani and Khosi — scramble to encircle and shield the two 7-year-old calves, Zuli and Mkhaya, from any possible ...

A viral video has captured the instinctive response of elephants at the San Diego Zoo during a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that ...