Animals are smarter than people acknowledge. They have fundamentally disparate senses and abilities than humans, so they understand the world differently than we do.
Can Animals Predict Earthquakes? (LiveScience.com)
Animals & Earthquake Prediction (U.S. Geological Survey)
There have also been examples where authorities have forecast successfully a major earthquake, based in part on the observation of the strange antics of animals. For example, in 1975 Chinese officials ordered the evacuation of Haicheng, a city with one million people, just days before a 7.3-magnitude quake. Only a small portion of the population was hurt or killed. If the city had not been evacuated, it is estimated that the number of fatalities and injuries could have exceeded 150,000.
Quotation from National Geographic News
I absolutely believe it … they know way before we do. Even my cat hears things and sees things before I do …
Just back and scrolled through.
Nice series Seraphine
and the earthquake
what an experience
I’ve always said that, I totally believe animals know more then people think.
Maybe were just not smart enough to figure out what they are trying to tell us.
It is of course not “knowledge” that animals use, it is the heightened sensitivity of their senses. You could say that animals are “specialized” while we humans are “generalized”. Does that make sense?
One concept of “human-freedom” is such, that due to their non-specialized nature they can therefore seek out the path they wish to walk.
Therefore humans are not the by-product of monkeys, but rather the other way around. This might sound arrogant, but if you are a naked mammal, you will have choices in what to dress, both physically and mentally. It starts already there, when you do not have feathers nor fur….
So in a way, humans are the most vulnerable species around, which proves Darwin wrong in his evolutionary theorem of the evolving species by survival of the fittest. That’s bullshit.
Anyhow, also rats leave the basements before an earthquake strikes. And some indigenous people observed animals fleeing to higher grounds BEFORE the Sunami hit in the far east… followed the creatures, and were saved.
Amazing. Animals truly have a sense we don’t have.
My monkey story goes something like this:
When we were in Tanzania, we took a short safari, and were told not to feed the monkeys. I had my arm dangling out the window, holding a cookie. Bad idea. A monkey attacked my arm. Okay, not really attacked, but jumped on me. I screamed. And examined myself for monkey scratches. Luckily, he didn’t break the skin.
That night I had a nightmare that a monkey was reeking havoc in our tent. I woke up convinced of this. My husband was too scared to turn the light on because I was THAT sure we had a primate amongst us!
Love these little monkeys. We had a sloth in front of the hostel, they are so slow and clumsy…!