Reply #8: Were many animals lost?

[ananda]

Interesting topic.

Were many animals lost in this latest Indian Ocean disaster?

Some people from the disaster areas are reporting amazement that more animals weren't killed. Also, people from all over the world are providing their own anecdotal stories of how their animals acted before earthquakes and many were very strange. Anyhow... I did some searching and found these articles. -- Sue

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Quake%20Sri%20Lanka%20Animals

Experts: Tsunami kills few animals

By GEMUNU AMARASINGHE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka -- Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale animal deaths from the weekend's massive tsunami - 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.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=11009&cid=5&cname=Asia%20&%20Pacific

Animals may have fled tsunami
A Reuters report notes that in Sri Lanka, where tens of thousands lost their lives to the Boxing Day tsunami, animals appear to have fled inland before the waves struck.

As governments gear up to spend fortunes on tsunami warning systems, the mystery cannot afford to be overlooked.

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/12-29-04.asp

Planetary alignment can devastate the world in next few months - Earth shaking Russian Volcano in Kamchatka erupts with massive earthquake
Sudhir Chadda, Special Correspondent
December 29, 2004

According to some sources, whales have come on the shore in various countries including Australia and natives are saying that those are signs of tremendous under water upheaval.
According to some Indian scientists, Venus, moon and Jupiter is pulling earth away from the Sun in the same one line. The linear momentum can devastate the world in the next few months.

Animal zoo supervisors are reporting from various part of the world that animals are behaving strangely all around the world for the last few months.

In Sri Lanka where more than 14,000 people have died and the animal zoo had a direct hit from the Tsunami, not a single animal has died or is injured. They all ran to higher ground before the Tsunami came. Tsunamis have electromagnetic waves associated that the animals can sense. That may have saved them.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/12/29/latest/20426Tsunamiki&sec=latest

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: As Sri Lanka's human death toll surged, wildlife officials expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale deaths among animals from the weekend's massive tsunami.

"This is very interesting. I am finding bodies of humans, but I have yet to see a dead animal,'' said Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, whose Jetwing Eco Holidays runs a hotel in the Yala National Park.

The huge waves Sunday washed floodwaters inland into Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, but the animals apparently were not harmed and may have sought out high ground, Wijeyeratne said.

"Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth sense,'' Wijeyeratne said.