Imagine stumbling across a tiny creature darting across the African underbrush, its nose twitching and legs pumping like a ...

When a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday morning, one elephant herd did something extraordinary ...

Elephants at San Diego Zoo Safari Park formed an alert circle to protect their young as a magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit the ...

The behavior is a “natural response to perceived threats that helps protect younger elephants and the herd as a whole,” the ...

They are predators and hunt their prey as a group. Although they prey on large animals, such as antelopes and warthogs, ...

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

Elephant startled a lioness with a sudden charge but showed rare compassion by avoiding harm to her helpless cubs.

Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina ... Once spread across vast areas of the Southern Hemisphere, these apex predators are facing challenges from both climate shifts and human activities.