Animals Can Sense Earthquakes is Real or Fake
Earthquakes are almost unpredictable phenomenon that taken countless lives and caused enormous damage to properties. Some of them are predictable but not all. There is no way we can accurately predict when earthquakes are going to visit us. There is a hypothesis that animals can detect ahead of time where earthquakes will hit. Many researchers have tried to proof if animals can really predict earthquakes for many years. However, some of the people are strongly disagree with this hypothesis.
Researchers say that animals like dogs and cats have strange behavior before the earthquakes happen. Strange behavior like dogs will keep barking or biting, and cats will become extremely nervous; some animals are even trying to hide and escape from the area. “In 373 B.C., historians recorded that animals, including rats, snakes and weasels, deserted the Greek city of Helice in droves just days before a quake devastated the place.” which draws the first hypothesis that animals can detect earthquakes. Rupert Sheldrake did some studies on animal reactions before major tremors. In all the cases, he said, “there were reports of peculiar behavior beforehand, including dogs howling in the night mysteriously, caged birds becoming restless, and nervous cats hiding.” which makes him to believe animals are capable to sense earthquake before it happens.
Earthquake are tragedy that destroy millions of people’s lives and properties. There is no way we can prevent it to happen, but there is a hope that we can predict when it will happen. If this hope comes true, we will save countless people’s lives and to decrease its destruction to minimum. Now researchers are still trying their best to find out a way that we can see its coming before it happen by watching strange animals behavior.
Source:
National Geographic News
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1111_031111_earthquakeanimals.html
Posted by: Kaiming (Kyle) Chiang (1)
posted by PWH @ 11:43 PM
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5 Comments:
I guess this is kid of cool. I wonder what is the most likely scientific explanation for this behavior. If it was just one specie of animals behaving in such way then I guess one could say that they are more sensitive to some kind of tectonic plate movement under the earth. But from your post it seems like several different animals have some sort of characteristic behavior.
Bruno Karam (1)
Maybe some of the animals are sensitive to the air pressure of the earth and the vibration on the ground. I have read the artical, your artical is lack of vocabulary.
Xuni Li (1)
The reason I'm suspicious of this story and always have been is that it treats the word animal as though it covers everything non-human. If it were to describe the behavior of just one or a small handful of species it would be a lot more believable but the idea that every creature on earth has an undetectable sense of the earth other than man is very much like many other myths out there. It goes along with this strange idea that man is less “in tune” with nature. When it comes down to it our domesticated animals are just as helpless in nature as we are, which is why we have such a need for animal shelters.
That being said, I am glad people are doing research into it, because if everyone listened to suspicious wet-blankets like myself nothing unconventional would ever be discovered. As for the report on the article, it’s good, well done. ^_^
~Michelle Vigeant
Based on Evolution, it should be possible for an animal to acquire such ability.
If an animal is able to sense the movements of the tetonic plates then correctly label it as something bad, this could be possible.
One problem in testing such a hypothesis is difficult though. How do you move the earth's crust in a controlled fashion???
Eun Shin (1)
I think this is interesting. I'm curious to whether or not animals are specifically honed in on detecting earthquakes, or if its just natural disaster in general. Also, there are many different species that must have different senses due to the different habitats that they reside in. This is interesting, and it would be fascinating to see how animals really detect these patterns.
Harvmit Huang (1)
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