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The 20-year-old man who fell over a wall and crashed onto the field at PNC Park in Pittsburgh is "awake and alert," according to a GoFundMe page raising money for his medical bills. Kavan Markwood ...
I watched with fascination a video that captured a group of elephants creating an “alert circle” during an earthquake. When elephants sense an earthquake, often before it’s even felt by ...
Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park huddled together, facing outward, in a behavior called an "alert circle" after an earthquake hit. Screenshot via San Diego Zoo Safari Park When a 5.2 ...
In doing so, they formed what is known as an “alert circle.” The older elephants scrambled in a circle to surround and shield the two 7-year-old calves. Mindy Albright, a curator of mammals at ...
When a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck the area on Monday, Mkhaya's herd wasted no time forming a protective barrier around her, known as an "alert circle." The phenomenon, captured on video ...
In a remarkable display of instinct, a herd of elephants at the San Diego Zoo formed a protective “alert circle” around their young during the 5.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Southern ...
The phenomenon, known as an "alert circle," occurs when a herd senses danger and gathers around the younger elephants to shield them from threats. Video shared by the San Diego Zoo Safari Park ...
At the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a viral Instagram video shows the elephants quickly forming a protective circle around their youngest members, a behavior known as an “alert circle.” ...
When a 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit Southern California on Monday, humans followed the usual drill: drop, cover and hold on. But one herd of elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido ...
A zoo spokesperson said the behavior is called an alert circle and said it is “intended to protect the young — and the entire herd — from threats.” The earthquake near Julian rattled much ...
“They sensed something was off and potentially dangerous. Immediately, they ran together and formed what we call an alert circle,” Albright said. “This is a defense mechanism that elephant ...
Experts call this behavior an "alert circle," a response matriarch elephants display when they perceive a threat. "Elephants are highly social, they take care of each other," says Joshua Plotnik ...