Can Animals Really Foresee Disasters?
People have always speculated about the abilities of animals to sense natural calamities much before their occurence; And there's nothing unnatural about these speculations, once we explore the various events when such a phenomenon occurred: 1) The earliest events that mention the eerie behavior of animals prior to catastrophe include that of the Greek historian Thucydides(373 bc), who mentions about the snakes, dogs, weasels and rats, deserting the city of Helice in unison days before an earthquake occurred there. Also, the earthquake in Naples in the year 1805 had triggered the Oxen, sheep, dogs and geese to make strange alarming cries minutes before the ground shook. image courtesy: CHOO Yoon-KONG/AFP via getty images 2) The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 killed atleast 2,25,000 people from a dozen of Asian and African countries, and a major reason for such a massive scale of destruction was attributed to the failure of warning signals, that could ...