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When an earthquake hit, these elephants formed a protective circle around their youngest
When the ground started shaking, a herd of African elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park formed a protective barrier, known as an "alert circle," around their youngest. Experts say it's a demonstration of their sharp instincts,
Watch These Female Elephants Form an ‘Alert Circle’ During an Earthquake
When a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday morning, one elephant herd did something extraordinary and heart-melting. At the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a viral Instagram video shows the elephants quickly forming a protective circle around their youngest members,
Genetic research has raised the possibility that the two classic forms of elephant in Africa are separate species rather than subspecies of Loxodonta africana. Museum research has uncovered ...
"Our hypothesis of self-domestication in elephants has exciting potential for future research in other species", concludes Raviv. "It can inform our understanding of the evolution of prosocial ...
"This [study] presents an interesting picture as we try to understand the evolution of intelligence." Only one of the elephants, named Happy, completed the highest level of mirror self-recognition ...
Focus: Studying the fossil origins of the Asian elephant, and the status of living subspecies such as the Borneo elephant. Museum researchers are studying the morphology of Borneo elephants, an ...
Organisms as diverse as amoebas and elephants frequently live in groups ... Whereas kin selection likely underlies the evolution of many cooperatively breeding societies, it alone cannot explain ...
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