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

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(Ken Bohn | San Diego Zoo Safari Park) When a 5.2 magnitude earthquake ... between humans and the world’s largest land animal in the town of Livingstone, Zambia. These fast, coordinated responses ...