Earth Signs: Unusual animal behaviour

by Johnny Storm v1 on Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:37 am

Statistical and anecdotal evidence seems to indicate that many animals have a sense of impending disaster. A thread for the latest stories about silly bears, wandering mountain lions, and runaway deer...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/animal_eqs.php wrote:The earliest reference we have to unusual animal behavior prior to a significant earthquake is from Greece in 373 BC. Rats, weasels, snakes, and centipedes reportedly left their homes and headed for safety several days befor a destructive earthquake. Anectdotal evidence abounds of animals, fish, birds, reptiles, and insects exhibiting strange behavior anywhere from weeks to seconds before an earthquake. However, consistent and reliable behavior prior to seismic events, and a mechanism explaining how it could work, still eludes us. Most, but not all, scientists pursuing this mystery are in China or Japan.

We can easily explain the cause of unusual animal behavior seconds before humans feel an earthquake. Very few humans notice the smaller P wave that travels the fastest from the earthquake source and arrives before the larger S wave. But many animals with more keen senses are able to feel the P wave seconds before the S wave arrives. As for sensing an impending earthquake days or weeks before it occurs, that's a different story.

by Johnny Storm v1 on Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:43 am

Deer are not native in Australia. There's nothing too natural about Australia's Gold Coast. At its centre is a jungle of skyscrapers built on reclaimed coastal swamp.
I've just watched the news, where a group of deer have been running through Gold Coast streets. So far, nobody seems to know where they've come from.
http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2011/08/11/340125_gold-coast-lead-story.html
Then, i find, this has all happened before on the beaches there.

by lisofby on Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:05 am

maybe santa got drunk and the deer got away? maybe we're noah's ark?....it's happened before? strange things are happening....

by Whitebearpaw on Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:33 am

Ya' know, I've been thinking about this for a few days now. Animals react to their natural surroundings. A keen sense that we don't have. Well, that might not be true if we weren't surrounded by skyscrapers and the newest technologies all over the world. I have been hearing of some strange behavior with animals lately and though some may say its nothing unusual, i think it may be. It almost feels as though there's some confusion with some animals lately, and I'm beginning to wonder if it might not have something to do with the sun. As a matter of fact, people in this world today seem to be acting a little more strange than usual. Maybe a neutrino overdose?

Look at that post time!! I can't seem to get away from the 333.

by Johnny Storm on Fri May 11, 2012 4:55 pm

In this case it's not really the "animals" behaving unusually...
http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/63678

May 8, 2012 21:41

Two dolphins overdose at techno rave in a zoo

Shadow and Chelmers died last November at Connyland Zoo in Switzerland

Two dolphins died after inadvertently overdosing at a rave in a zoo in Switzerland.

The animals, called Shadow and Chelmers, died after taking heroin
substitute Buprenorphine at an event which was held last November. It is
thought that it was fed to them by party goers at the techno weekender
at Connyland Zoo in Lipperswil, reports the Huffington Post.

According to reports, Shadow was found dead after the rave, while
Chelmers passed away five days later after "shaking all over and foaming
at the mouth". Chelmers was given adrenaline but died an hour later.

It was initially thought that the pulsing music played at the event was
the cause of the animals' death, but toxicology reports proved
otherwise.

Zookeeper Nadja Gasser has said that both animals had a "drawn out and
painful" death. "It was horrendous," she added to local press, via the Daily Mail. "I have not been able to sleep since."

by Rockhopper on Fri May 18, 2012 7:48 am

My dog went a bit strange before the big shake back in Sept. '10. He was whining and whinging for several hours that night and wouldn't settle down. Running through the house (we were in at the time). I thought there may be some-one hanging around so I went outside at 4.30am to check. Saw nothing, came back inside and headed for bed again when there was a helluva 'Boom' and the house started to shake in a most unpleasant manner. The dog disappeared under the bed, the missus landed on the floor and I was tossed from one side of the kitchen to the other bouncing off the walls! The bus was parked in the drive outside the kitchen window and I was thinking that it was going to roll over! Shocked

The noise, a deep growling rumbling sound was deafening and the sky was lit up with flashes from the power lines shorting out.

Living in these shaky Isles, we are used to tremblors but that one was a doozey!

Earth Signs: Unusual animal behaviour

Earth Signs: Unusual animal behaviour

Runaway Deer in Australia

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