Posted on 04/14/2025 6:44:12 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
African Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park instinctively created an "alert circle" during the earthquake.
The action was caught on camera, as seen below. The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance says elephants circle to protect the young and the entire herd from threats.
"Elephants have the ability to feel sound through their feet," The SDZWA said. "This video demonstrates the strong social family structure in elephant herds."
The herd consists of Ndlula, Umngani, Khosi, and youngsters Zuli and Mkhaya, who went back to normal after about 4 minutes, though they did stay close to one another, the zoo said.
The earthquake struck San Diego County with an epicenter near Julian at about 10:10 a.m. Monday. The temblor was felt from Los Angeles to Tijuana, Mexico and was followed by several aftershocks.
Not because of the earthquake. It was because they heard Hillary Clinton was in town.
I saw elephants do the same thing in the Serengeti when the safari vehicles got close to the herd. I also saw migrating zebras get a stern warning by the elephants when they tried to cut through the herd.
Oh, how cool is that? I love elephants.
Thank you for posting that.
Way cool..
GOP mascot Elephant
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sometimes animal videos show up on my twitter feed that then send me down a rabbit hole.
I don’t think I have ever seen a video of a porcupine. Just pictures. Here it is defending itself. Then I had to look to see what could kill it.
https://x.com/dreamsNscience/status/1911752634794442998
turns out another animal I have never heard of is a porcupine predator. Fisher. Gets them in the head. Which then caused to me to wonder why dont more animals do it. Fisher is the primary predator.
Nature is a wild thing for sure.
So we made our own 😄
That porcupine had definite superiority over the leopard!
We had a porcupine in our garage one day.
I had no clue what to do.
I went online and found a solution.
It turns out they are nocturnal animals and do not like bright light.
So—I took a flashlight out and pointed it at the porcupine.
It kept moving away from me until it left the garage.
I saw a herd of wild horses in the Teddy Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota form a circle around a birthing mare.
Pretty intimidating, all those rear hooves at the ready.
It would have been much more impressive if they did it before the earthquake.
There is also video of several woke misfits biting and attacking each other just after the initial quake.
Good one!
Thank you for posting this!
I wonder if they hear the low frequency sounds.
I’ve heard of male lions who’ve been ousted as head of the pride will eat porcupine. They’re not good hunters, so porcupine is something they can catch.
Must be a letdown after having lionesses catch zebra and wildebeest for you, and you get to eat first.
Circle the wagons when you feel the ground shake..
Elephants think maybe God is freeing them and so face outward to see the walls come down.
Unfortunately, not today, again, boys.
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