The Sixth Sense of Animals can Predict Impending Disasters

It has been believed by many people that animals have a keen sense to predict imminent disasters such as earth quakes, storms etc. Many people have personal experiences and innumerable stories about the predicting ability of their pets regarding the dangerous storms, earth quakes and other natural disasters. Their pets can sense the disaster long before it starts. Their behavior suddenly changes and they start acting really crazy.

There is something interesting that happened on December 26th a few years ago which caused a major disaster called the tsunami. Even though it resulted in several deaths and large course of destruction, scientists have reported an amazing low loss of wildlife. We got the information from the photographer saying that he never saw any animal corpses as he flew over the wildlife reserve. Another amazing fact is that the flood waters only traveled for 2 miles inland into the wildlife reserve. A wildlife park hotel was destroyed completely caused by the tsunami waves, trees uprooted, many human lives had been lost but they did not find any dead animals, not even a rabbit. This made many people think that the animals may have sensed the impending high tide and traveled to higher grounds accordingly.

Many theories advise that the animal's sharp skills of awareness is a kind of sixth sense and this may have alerted them to the approaching tsunami. It could even be something as simple as the sense of hearing the sound of approaching wave while it was far enough away to give them adequate time to get into the higher ground. It has been believed that the animals are able to pick up the changing air pressure or pick up on resulting vibrations as well. Even though many scientists have suspected that the animals had a sixth sense towards natural disasters, it is always hard to confirm as it is not something that can be tested in a lab setting.

We can highlight one more incident which happened in Los Angeles which made us personally experienced the sixth sense of animals and birds and this was during the Whittier earthquake in the year 1987. One of our friends has and African Grey Parrot at home. He kept the parrot in a large cage. Around 30 seconds(half a minute) before our friend felt the earth quake, his parrot went really crazy. It started screaming and jumping about in the cage trying to get out. The action was so severe that the parrot had broken its wing feather including its blood feathers and started bleeding. Another friend who stays in the same area has a pet dog. The dog also reacted strangely before the arrival of the earth quake. He stood under the door frame which is apparently the safest area during a quake.

However, pets don't always predict all the impending dangers. Some times they may not be able to. It completely depends upon the specific signal that the impending disaster sends out before it starts. Few warning signals may be recognized by the animals and many may not be. This would perhaps inspire the scientists to study the phenomena further. Someday, it will help to recognize the impending disaster before its starts which would save many human lives.

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