Just came across this article at Wired that talks about wildlife and the Tsunami that rocked Sri Lanka. The waves apparently washed floodwaters two miles inland at Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife reserve, yet no animals died:
“No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit,” said H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka’s Wildlife Department. “I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening.”
Is that so? Maybe it’s not that animals have a sixth sense, but that humans are stupid. You’d never find a rabbit or an elephant standing around watching the water engulf them as they record it all on tape. Nor would you find a leopard heading into the water to retrieve his favorite material possession.
Okay so maybe I am being a little harsh, but seriously!
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Harsh?? define "harsh," I agree, Humans are somewhat stupid.
Apparently humans have a similar "early warning" system; but with all our other senses being bombarded, we don’t heed the early warning system (infrasound wave detection).
That makes sense I suppose. But animals should be similarly bombarded when they are around human settlements no? Radio’s, cell phones, TV’s, etc…all create "noise".
That’s why everyone should get a pet. So you have advanced warning about impending doom. Also, they’ll wake you up if your house is on fire (unless if they’re fish).
I agree with you Mack. (write THAT down…lol). Humans are inherently dumb when it comes to stuff like that. Like when you’re driving and about to hit something, you freeze. If an animal is running and something is in its way, it tries valiantly to run around it.
I want to know exactly how the animals got out of the zoo in time before the tsunami wave hit them. Send answer to Kelsey_Clarke12@hotmail.com
I agree for the most part Mack that humans are stupid or just plain ignornant of the facts, however there was a story yesterday about 6 primitive tribes that live on tiny islands off the coast of India. It seems that these primitive tribes people lost very few members as a result of the tsunamis. They seem to be like the animals and have for the most part escaped with very little loss of life. It is said that these primitive humans can tell changes in the depth of the water by the sound their paddle makes in the water, and that they can tell if there is something wrong by the smell of the wind that travels over the island. At this time of year the men would be out fishing and the women and children would be down at the shore drying the fish and doing their everyday chores. They were however, back in the jungles in the middle of the islands taking refuge from the tsunamis.
I don’t think that humans are stupid, Just out of touch. Check out my thoughts at <a href="http://jossefordart.typepad.com/art_journeys_and_conversa/2005/01/animals_used_si.html" title="do humans have a sixth sense?">animals and sixth sense</a>
I think that animals have keen sense of hearing and smell which the tribe members haved also learned living with them. Humans are not stupid but not biologically developed to the standard of the animal. So the animals survived the tsunami
humans are stupid when it coems to sencing stuff.. were too lost in this eletronic world we created. Depend too much on machines and push aside all natrual insticts that we have. and were supposed to be the smartest and more "advanced" psh. yeah, that worked out