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Originally posted by No I.D.@Dec 31 2004, 01:48 PM
I haven't read this entire thread so unsure if it was brought up, but did anyone see the stories about the wildlife in that area? I can't remember what station I was watching, CNN maybe, where they were talking about the many different types of wildlife in that area and how nearly no significant losses were found in the population of their wildlife. Apparently the earthquake could be felt by most land-dwelling animals and they all went for higher ground. Pretty amazing story if you ask me. There's probably alot of animals out there not only smarter than the human race gives them credit for, but maybe a bit smarter than many members of the human race itself.
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I saw Jack Hanna (the somewhat hyper guy with the animals that goes on The Tonight Show) and had a rather strange theory. He said that the birds that prey on the fish saw what was happening and they took off for land sreeching and cawing and the other animals caught on to this and realized something was up and and so they headed for the hills. He said it was much like how zebras will pay attention to the giraffes and vice versa and they know when something is up (like a lion) just by paying attention so they have sort of an animal warning system. Humans apparently have lost the ability and we don't pay attention to the animal grapevine anymore.
I don't know how true that is but that's what he said.
Somewhere else (or it might have been Hanna) said that elephants have some kick-ass hearing and big ears and they could have heard it coming so they got out of Dodge. To go back to the theory above, if all the other animals see that the elephants are afraid of something they probably can figure it out pretty fast that they should be scared as well. Wild animals are lucky in that they are not dumb like people who might go the other way to see what all the fuss is about.
Another theory -- my own, is that animals can run fast or fly away. They do seem to have a sixth sense about some of this stuff, but in this instance being able to run like hell is probably the best defense.