I am not so sure it is "magical qualities" which they possess which let
them tell the future which allow animals to escape such diaasters as the
horrid disaster in SE Asia or the fact that they are attuned to
preditors day and night and not sleeping in buildings, driving cars in
noisy human environments and ignoring such things. They hear (often
wich much better hearing than we have) , feel or see something strange
and they run the opposite direction and usually much faster than a human
can run. They are not out in environments (like the ocean in a boat)
where they do not have means on their own without mechanical assistance
of moving quickly to escape danger. They are usually not distracted
by trying to save posessions or friends or relatives. Basically they
are usually better at saving their own neck than we are.
Barb Beck
Edmonton
artistico7 wrote:
>Animals, contrary to human beings, are much better at interpreting
>what their senses tell them about changes in their surroundings - a
>vital survival instinct that mankind to a large extent has lost, and
>in many cases this is something that a group of recordists should
>find interesting as the subsonic rumble of distant events sometimes
>seem to be what triggers protective behaviour. This is a very
>unscientific piece of information of course.
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>The animals, better in tune with the natural vibrations and sounds
>of their surroundings, would notice the initial earthquake, and
>likewise they might have further detected the approaching wave.
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>Another thing to consider is of course that the zone nearest the
>ocean is generally saturated with human occupation, leaving less
>room for animals, and it is in this zone that the effect has been
>the greatest also on the human population.
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>Hakon
>www.HakonSoreide.com
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>>Bernie
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>>Tsunami Kills Few Animals in Sri Lanka
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>>By GEMUNU AMARASINGHE
>>YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka (AP) - Wildlife officials in Sri
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>>An Associated Press photographer who flew over Sri Lanka's Yala
>>National Park in an air force helicopter saw abundant wildlife,
>>including elephants, buffalo, deer, and not a single animal corpse.
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>>Floodwaters from Sunday's tsunami swept into the park, uprooting
>>trees and toppling cars onto their roofs - one red car even ended
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>>``Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth sense,''
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>>Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200 Asian
>>Elephants, crocodile, wild boar, water buffalo and gray langur
>>monkeys. The park also has Asia's highest concentration of
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>>are open to tourists.
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>>The human death toll in Sri Lanka surpassed 21,000. Forty
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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