Animals and survival instincts. How they know this is still unknown
For centuries, it has been believed that animals can predict natural disasters.
In fact, there is ample evidence that they can predict events such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
Here are a few examples.
Just before the tsunami struck the coasts of southern India and Sri Lanka in 2005, killing thousands and thousands of people, all the wild animals fled to nearby hillsides.
The Chinese government has compiled an official document listing the abnormal behaviors of animals that precede, and thus predict, earthquakes.
These include cows and horses refusing to enter their pens, mice leaving their hiding places and running wild, and fish jumping out of the water.
In the Nevada desert in the United States, tortoises dig shallow holes in the rocky ground to soak up rain when they think a storm is coming.
Sheep run for cover when they sense bad weather is coming.
The sky can still be completely blue with no sign of a storm.
Cats can predict earthquakes.
When an earthquake is about to happen, a cat will do anything to get out of a building, and if she has kittens, she will take them with her.
In the hours before an earthquake, cats are extremely restless.
The Chinese have always relied on cats to predict earthquakes and other natural disasters.
How they know this is still unknown.
Do they hear or feel the rumbling of an earthquake ?
Do they detect changes in the earth’s electromagnetic field ?
Or do they sense a change in atmospheric pressure ?
Whatever the explanation, it seems reasonable to conclude that if you see animals fleeing from somewhere, it is good to get away with it.
