Posted on 12/31/2004 4:41:46 AM PST by Pharmboy
CUDDALORE: Five days after the tsunami wreaked havoc across the coastal region of India, the officials are realising that the number of dead animals - cattle, goats and dogs - in the killer waves are much fewer than perhaps seen in calamities such as cyclones and floods.
"Villagers in this part do not tie their animals. This may have helped them to run away before the waves hit the villages," said an official overseeing the relief work in Cuddalore district.
An interesting theory that is emerging is that the animals sensed the tsunami much in advance and it helped them to run away to safer places.
"My three dogs were barking and howling with no reason at around 7 am on Dec 26. I asked them to keep quiet but they continued barking and were restless," said Fr PA Sampath Kumar of Holy family church at Keezputhupattu about 15 km from Pondicherry.
The first waves of the killer tsunami hit Keezhputhupattu about 8.30 am which was followed by another at 9 am ravaging this fishing village.
"I definitely think that my dogs sensed the tsunami," the priest said.
Interestingly, during the tsunami alert on Thursday, which turned out to be a false alarm, the dogs showed no signs of panic.
"They were absolutely calm as you can see them now," he said and pointed to the three dogs- one a cross breed of British Terrier and two cross breed of Labradors, which were roaming around the church premises, a temporary relief camp now.
The tsunami killed 600 people across 50-55 villages in Cuddalore district and Keezputhupattu. There was hardly any trace of a dead cattle, goat or dogs, said an army jawan involed in removing the debris at the Devanampattinam fishing village where over 100 death were reported.
My sixth sense tells me this phenomenom (a) proves evolution happened (b) proves the Bible is true and (c) will cause this thread to survive into 2005.
I LOVE that, Laz.
best wishes and hopes for you for 2005.
How many cattle graze on the beach?
Beachfront property is always the choice, most expensive real estate. Grazing pasture is the cheapest. You graze farm animals on land where not much besides grass will grow.
So most animals do not live near the water. Plenty of them perish in forest fires and other disasters. Mount Saint Helens got plenty of them too.
They simply are not stockaded in harm's way - at least as far as tsunamis go.
When you take a trip to the beach... even in the West, do you see many animals? Of course not.
Now go inland away from the big cities...
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I haven't given up hope for a Doomsday Thread, incorporating Civil War, Calvinists, evolution, dope, Balkans, and immigration.
I would imagine that some of the aboriginal tribes on Andaman and Nicobar still have it. We edumacated our selves out of it.
Add the flat tax, gold standard, Apple computers, and Vatican II.
We live in Central New York State. A few years ago my husband and I were watching Fox & Friends and our cat, Floyd, was sleeping at the foot of the bed. All of a sudden he sat up looking quite frightened. Then he leaped off the bed and ran like crazy. My husband said "What the heck is wrong with him" and he got out of bed to go see where the cat went. About two minutes after the cat ran away, the house started shaking - it was gentle and lasted about 10 seconds. It was reported as a minor earthquake on the news. Floyd knew it was coming before we experienced it.
I've seen dogs who were trained to notify there owner when a seizure is about to happen. Perhaps we could train dogs to notify an owner when a tsunami is about to happen.
Interesting. Now, if some Freeper would tell me that the inaudible (to humans) low frequency sound waves travel faster than the shock waves, we would have a reason to believe...
RE: #68
That's why I don't like cats. Didn't even bother to warn the masters first. At least a dog will stick with his masters.
Probably it's low-frequency vibrations from the earthquake that we are not sensitive to, but animals are.
Good question. It might be that our highly evolved higher brain overrules the animal lower brain, so we are attracted to the newly exposed seabed just in time for the arrival of the step function water hammer.
Don't need to train the animals. The classified ads show a major increase in lost and found pets just before the big earthquakes. That means days of warning, weeks maybe. Remember the 200 whales and dolphins that beached themselves about a month before this Sumatra quake and the almost as big quake just before it?
Beagles?
Last month when Mt. St. Helens was erupting, a news show played the sound of a harmonic tremor, the sound made by the movement of magma underground. Two African Servals that were sleeping on the sofa next to me perked up, scanned around with their ears and took off running as fast as they could. They knew that was a bad sound.
Thought of some other reasons for fewer animals killed. Animals are not usually allowed in beach areas. Animals often can run faster than people.
Okay...then we should train human beings to recognize a warning from there pets. :-}
Sounds like a Crappie party in the works.
Birds flew away. Monkeys..to the top of trees. Guess that about covers it.
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