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« on: Dec 30th, 2004, 7:14pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Did animals' 'sixth sense' save them from tsunami?
Thursday, December 30, 2004 Posted: 4:49 PM EST (2149 GMT)  
 
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) -- Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a "sixth sense" for disasters, experts said on Thursday.
 
Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no dead animals found.
 
"No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka's Wildlife Department, said on Wednesday.
 
The waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km (2 miles) inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards. "There has been a lot of anecdotal evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven," said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behaviour specialist at Johannesburg Zoo.
 
"There have been no specific studies because you can't really test it in a lab or field setting," he told Reuters.
 
Other authorities concurred with this assessment.
 
"Wildlife seem to be able to pick up certain phenomenon, especially birds ... there are many reports of birds detecting impending disasters," said Clive Walker, who has written several books on African wildlife.
 
Animals certainly rely on the known senses such as smell or hearing to avoid danger such as predators.
 
The notion of an animal "sixth sense" -- or some other mythical power -- is an enduring one which the evidence on Sri Lanka's battered coast is likely to add to.
 
The Romans saw owls as omens of impending disaster and many ancient cultures viewed elephants as sacred animals endowed with special powers or attributes.
 
The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean on Sunday. It killed tens of thousands of people in Asia and East Africa.
 
 
 
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Re: Did animals' 'sixth sense' save them from tsun
« Reply #1 on: Dec 30th, 2004, 11:29pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify

. . . . . hmmmmm,  it MAY be that the animals have a "sixth sense" . . . .  
 
. . . .  but MAYBE it's got something to do with the fact that you just don't see that many elephants, and other animals on the beaches right smack in the middle of densely populated shoreline areas!
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« Reply #2 on: Dec 31st, 2004, 1:23am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
I think animals can sense certain things.  
 
Why else would dogs know you are about to pull up in the driveway in 10 minutes?
 
Mine certainly do.
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« Reply #3 on: Dec 31st, 2004, 9:56am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
I have watched a lot of the tsunami coverage, and without pictures, CNN relayed a story that an elephant picked up 2 or 3 kids and put them on it's back and carried them away from danger.   It sounds like an urban myth, but everyone is so desperate to hear survivor stories in all this mayhem, it was still good to hear.  
 
As for animals sensing something about to happen, I don't doubt it.  They have stronger senses, and are more attuned to nature than we are.
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« Reply #4 on: Dec 31st, 2004, 11:00am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Perhaps someone put the children on the elephant.  Whatever, it is a good story and we heard it also.
 
Bump, you're right, we've never seen any animal other than a dog on the beach! Roll Eyes
Nor a monkey or tiger or panther, which are in Mexico.  
Gawd forbid a python ever slithering on the beach!
 
Seriously injured people are 3 to 1 over the dead.  The news showed tons of medical supplies and Phizer donalted 5 milllion in suppplies and money.  Fed Ex is offering free delivery.  The goodness of America is shinning through, maybe other countries will take notice the USA isn't ugly!
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« Reply #5 on: Jan 2nd, 2005, 11:21am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
In the initial reports out of India, I heard comments about "bodies of people and cows everywhere"... I think it may be too, that there just weren't that many close to the water...
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Re: Did animals' 'sixth sense' save them from tsun
« Reply #6 on: Jan 2nd, 2005, 1:01pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Well cows are not really wild animals, they have been domesticated for many generations.  I noticed that the article specified "wild animals".  Also, animals like cows are typically penned up and not able to roam off to high ground. Even if they had felt it coming they would have been unable to escape.
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« Reply #7 on: Jan 2nd, 2005, 10:16pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Birds always seem to know when rain is coming.  It wouldn't surprise me that something in the barometric pressure or atmospheric disturbances could have been detected by animals.
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America, which has 5% of the worlds population, does more that 60% of the worlds charitable donations.
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