Visitors at San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s Condor Ridge area walk on an elevated section of the Condor Trail. In the distance at right is the Park’s African Plains area. (Charlie Neuman / For The ...

African elephants at the San Diego Zoo instinctively formed a protective circle around its youngest family members in the seconds after a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California on Monday.

SAN DIEGO (CNN) - Video from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park shows the African elephants’ reaction to Monday’s earthquake in Southern California. Zoo officials say the elephants engaged in a beh ...