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Did Animals Escape Tsunami?
There have long been studies demonstrating that animals can sense major natural disasters long before human beings. Cows are said to sit en masse prior to earthquakes. Birds seek shelter in sunny skies as hurricanes bear down.
Date: 2/5/2005 9:06:30 PM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 2159 times There have long been studies demonstrating that animals can sense major natural disasters long before human beings. Cows are said to sit en masse prior to earthquakes. Birds seek shelter in sunny skies as hurricanes bear down.
But now there is a weird situation in Sri Lanka, where local emergency folks can't seem to find any dead animals while finding many dead human beings.
Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals. [snip]
"No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit," [H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of the national Wildlife Department] added. "I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening."
Update: The Associated Press, covering the same story, reports that 21,000 people died in Sri Lanka, but none of the animals in the reserve:
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 leopards. The Yala reserve covers an area of 391 square miles, but only 56 square miles are open to tourists.
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