Animals knew the tsunami was coming?

**vn1** · 2nd January 2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4136485.stm

Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka have reported that, despite the loss of human life in the Asian disaster, there have been no recorded animal deaths.

**fonetech** · 2nd January 2005

dog = mans best friend, like fook is it, first sign of trouble and its each to his own

still reckon they are just bragging when they like there balls near me

**CzarJunkie** · 2nd January 2005

Thats what 1000's of years at the top of the food chain does to a species, we've stopped evolving and any acute senses we did have have long since left us. Humans prefer to change the world around them to suit their needs rather than evolve to grow with the environment and I reckon that'll be our eventual downfall.

**cosmicma** · 2nd January 2005

Originally Posted by CzarJunkie

Thats what 1000's of years at the top of the food chain does to a species, we've stopped evolving and any acute senses we did have have long since left us. Humans prefer to change the world around them to suit their needs rather than evolve to grow with the environment and I reckon that'll be our eventual downfall.

at the current rate of so called "development" i reckon we have got about 200 years left before we outgrow this planet
we will either rape the planet so badly of resources or damage the eco system so that it cannot sustain life
or maybe our natural greed won't be an issue any more ( yea right )

**4me2** · 2nd January 2005

Originally Posted by cosmicma

at the current rate of so called "development" i reckon we have got about 200 years left before we outgrow this planet
we will either rape the planet so badly of resources or damage the eco system so that it cannot sustain life
or maybe our natural greed won't be an issue any more ( yea right )

Dead serious now we could do with a Chinese civil war .

Sounds bad but I think China and its massive and rapid growth are the biggest danger to this planet .

**Junglist** · 2nd January 2005

this may come out sounding wrong, but is the 6th sense the fact they took notice the earthquake happend, the ammount of people you see in the videos that actualy run to the beach front to see where the sea had gone

**xdir** · 3rd January 2005

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/as...ea.gypsies.ap/

Sea gypsies' knowledge saves village
Newspaper says Thai fishermen warned of tidal wave
Saturday, January 1, 2005 Posted: 2325 GMT (0725 HKT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Knowledge of the ocean and its currents passed down from generation to generation of a group of Thai fishermen known as the Morgan sea gypsies saved an entire village from the Asian tsunami, a newspaper said Saturday.
By the time killer waves crashed over southern Thailand last Sunday the entire 181 population of their fishing village had fled to a temple in the mountains of South Surin Island, English language Thai daily The Nation reported.
"The elders told us that if the water recedes fast it will reappear in the same quantity in which it disappeared," 65-year-old village chief Sarmao Kathalay told the paper.
So while in some places along the southern coast, Thais headed to the beach when the sea drained out of beaches -- the first sign of the impending tsunami -- to pick up fish left flapping on the sand, the gypsies headed for the hills.
Few people in Thailand have a closer relationship with the sea than the Morgan sea gypsies, who spend each monsoon season on their boats plying the waters of the Andaman Sea from India to Indonesia and back to Thailand.
Between April and December, they live in shelters on the shore surviving by catching shrimp and spear fishing. At boat launching festivals each May, they ask the sea for forgiveness