If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

When an earthquake strikes, humans duck and cover. But elephants get in formation. African elephants at the San Diego Zoo instinctively formed a protective circle around its youngest family ...

The footage, released by the San Diego Zoo, shows elephants form an "alert circle" during a 5.2 magnitude earthquake near San Diego, California. According to the San Diego Zoo, the behavior is a ...