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MUCH TO LEARN FROM THE ANIMALS
According to National Geographic, there have been a massive number
of reports documenting animals who seemed to sense the recent Asian
tsunami before it hit. For example, Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park
underwent many human casualties, but the park managers said the wildlife
suffered almost no casualties. "The elephants, wild boar, deer,
monkeys and others had moved inland to avoid the killer waves."
In Thailand, seemingly insane elephants broke their chains and fled
inland before the waves hit. Authorities in India reported that "the
indigenous, stone-age tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar islands escaped
the effects of the tsunami because they heeded warning signals from
birds and animals." Some scientists have recognized these widespread
occurences as a mandate to pay better attention to all types of warning
signs from the animal kingdom, not only in regards to natural disasters,
but also with environmental impacts, such as the recent outbreak of
frog mutations, Mad Cow and Deer Disease, and declining mammalian
fertility. /old_articles/corp/tsunami.cfm