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| Could elephants sense an earthquake or tsunami? |
Animal Instinct
After the earthquake and devastating tsunami in South East Asia,听stories emerged from Sri Lanka and Thailand that animals appeared to act oddly ahead of the tsunami.
Elephants were said to have trumpeted and fled whilst听flocks of birds were seen flying inland.
There also appears to have been little loss of native wildlife with very few dead animals found.
Nature explores the seismic and infrasonic waves that are generated by earthquakes and tsunamis and how they might be felt or heard.
For example, scientists have known for several years that elephants communicate using infrasound - low frequency waves of sound inaudible to the human ear.
With their finely tuned senses and extreme awareness of everything in their environment, were elephants and other animals able to detect the approaching tsunami and head inland or to higher ground in time?
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