Can a natural warning system for disaster be developed?
History of Human Use of Animal Behavior Observations
Oar fish in Japan are in ancient folklore as predictors of earthquakes when spotted by humans.
Farmers Alminac recognizes using animals as a prediction source for weather
1975 Chinese officials ordered the evacuation of Haicheng, China after hordes of animals begin to flee
Northridge, California, quake in 1994, and the Greek and Turkish quakes in 1999, there were reports of peculiar behavior beforehand, including dogs mysteriously howling in the night, caged birds becoming restless, and nervous cats hiding.
Two days before an earthquake struck Helice, Greece, in 373 B.C., the snakes, weasels, and worms deserted the city. Minutes before the Naples quake of 1805, oxen, sheep, dogs, and geese cried out in unison. A herd of horses tore loose and ran off in panic just prior to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. ~Helmut Tributsch
Animals With "Super Senses" eye witness accounts
woamn notices bumble bees hiding head first inside small flowers just before a bad hurricane hits. They ride the storm out and survive.
Elephants-
zoo animals witnessed acting irratically just before an earthquake
Pbs (video) Nature: Can Animals Predict Disaster?
Infra-sounds "the sounds of the earth"
Fish and electro-magnetic sensory
"Swarm inteligence"
Inpending Danger Warnings Given by Animals
Astralia, Bureau of Meteorology's Indigenous Weather Knowledge project. Study on Aboriginal practices of predicting seasons by watching flora and fauna.
Navy Uses Dophins to detect mines in the ocean
Infersound-the sounds of th planet dertected at different levels by different animals.
The Nomatic Moken peoples of the burmese waters use signs of the seas to survive. They send half the year on the water.
Studies on Animal Sensory Perception
Osaka University, Japan-Motoll Ikeya. A study on various animals and fish and their electronmagnetic field preception using small amounts of elctric field variations.
Sharks pressure sensing abilities-Lauren Smith. Aberdeen's National Hyperbaric Centre
Jim Berkland a former geologist out of California predicts earthquakes by studing average reported missing animals coupled with lunar and tidal phases
Toads being studied in hopes of predicting earthquakes
Elephants detecting infra-sound. Katlin