Do animals act weird before natural disasters?

[Triumph]

Maybe before Katrina, all of the animals were asking one another, as they watched the humans flee the city, "How do you think they all know when to leave?"

 

[DCFife]

Remember the Northridge quake in '94? I was living in Las Vegas at the time and my wife had a few finches (birds) that were in a cage in our room. It was the wee hours of the morning and we were asleep when the birds started going absolutely nuts - flying around the cage, chirping, etc. About 30 or so seconds later we felt the quake - pretty good shaking even though we were about 250 miles from the epicenter.

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[wchou]

Originally posted by: binister
My dog tends to drink a lot right before earthquakes.

In all seriousness, yes. My dog tends to run around and bark right before even the smallest earthquake.

dogs will bark at anything...

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Eli
Atmospheric conditions don't explain reactions to earthquakes and tsunamis, though...

I would fathom that they feel the earthquake before the tsunami and possibly tremors before the earthquake.

That was my point - they can "feel" things we can't measure.

There was a really good movie about this with John Travolta I believe, good stuff.

In every case I've heard of, we could indeed measure it, but the warning didn't go out/was not heeded. Just because animals are more sensitive to certain input than humans doesn't mean anything other than that. Many animals are more sensitive than humans.

I reiterate, we did measure the earthquake that preceeded the 2004 tsunami.

If you think that animals running from a natural disaster is evidence of the supernatural, I can't say I hold your ideas on science in high esteem.

Err..

The whole point is that they evacuate the area before the earthquake/tsunami.

Remember that the 2004 tsunami hit places where the earthquake wasn't felt.

-edit-

what I'm trying to say is they sense these things. and they sense it in ways humans can't measure.

Tell me that a huge tsunami is not going to be detectible before humans and I'll by you a chicken sandwitch.

While animals are going "gee, looks like the earth is moving and the water receeding. That means I need to get the F out of here"

Humans don't have that much evolution or senses.

If the animals decide to "get the F out", one would be wise to follow no matter what the news or intarweb says.