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  • AP Photographer Confirms Report on Animals Surviving Tsunami

    12/30/2004 1:18:03 AM PST · by ambrose · 23 replies · 2,277+ views
    AP ^ | 12/29
    AP Photog Confirms Report on Animals Surviving Tsunami Published: December 29, 2004 11:00 AM ET SRI LANKA (AP) Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale animal deaths from the tsunamis, indicating that animals may have sensed the wave coming and fled to higher ground. An Associated Press photographer who flew over Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in an air force helicopter saw abundant wildlife, including elephants, buffalo, deer, and not a single animal corpse. Floodwaters from Sunday's tsunami swept into the park, uprooting trees and toppling cars onto their roofs -- one...