Elephants at San Diego Zoo safari park huddle to protect calves during 5.2 earthquake

San Diego – When the Earth shook from an earthquake of 5.2 degrees, a flock of elephants spread in San Diego Zoo Safari to protect their young.

A CT scan on the box in the park shows the five African elephants that stand in the morning sun before shaking the camera and running in different directions. Then the older elephants – NDLULA, UMngani and Khosi – to surround and protect the 7 -year -old Zuli and MKHAYA from any possible threats.

They remain gathered for several minutes as the old elephants look out, and they seem ready, their ears spread and float – even after a vibrator stopped.

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The earthquake felt from San Diego to Los Angeles, 120 miles (193 km). It was sent rocks that retreat on the rural roads in the province of San Diego and expelled elements of store shelves in the small mountain town of Julian near the earthquake center, but no injuries or severe damage caused.

But it was terrified of the elephants.

“As soon as the circle of the circle,” Mindy Ulbright, mammal secretary, said.

Elephants are very smart and social animals that have the ability to feel magic through their feet. When they see a threat, they often combine together in a “alert circle”, usually with young people gathered in the middle and adults facing the outside to defend the group.

In the video, one of the calves can be seen running for the refuge between adults, a group of mothers who all helped raise them. Olbrayte said that the other calf, the only male, remained on the edge of the circle, and wanted to show his courage and independence. Meanwhile, the female elephant, Jossi, the teenager who helped him raise him with his biological mother, Nadla, repeatedly on his back with her trunk, and even on his face, as if he was wearing him to say, “Things are fine”, and “stay in the circle.”

Ulbright said that Zuli is still a child and is blocked in this way, but his role will change over the next few years as he becomes a bull and moves to join the bachelor’s group while female elephants remain with the unity of the family throughout their life.

“It is a wonderful thing to see them doing the thing that we should do all – which is what any father does, which is the protection of their children,” said Ulbrayte.

About an hour later when the final tremor was struck, they gathered shortly again and then separated as soon as they decided that everyone is safe.