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Experts: Tsunami Kills Few Animals
YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka (AP) - 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.
Floodwaters from the tsunami swept into the park, uprooting trees and toppling cars onto their roofs - one red car even ended up on top of a huge tree - but the animals apparently were not harmed and may have sought out high ground, said Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, whose Jetwing Eco Holidays ran a hotel in the park.
``This is very interesting. I am finding bodies of humans, but I have yet to see a dead animal,'' said Wijeyeratne, whose hotel in the park was totally destroyed in Sunday's tidal surge.
``Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth sense,'' Wijeyeratne said.
Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200 Asian Elephants, crocodile, wild boar, water buffalo and gray langur monkeys. The park also has Asia's highest concentration of leopards. The Yala reserve covers an area of 391 square miles, but only 56 square miles are open to tourists.
The human death toll in Sri Lanka surpassed 21,000. Forty foreigners were among 200 people in Yala who were killed.
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12/29/2004 06:18
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this is such a cool story. they interviewed jack hannah (guy that brings animals on talk shows) on cnn, and he was saying that animals can sense the electro magnetic signals and can sense when something is about to happen.. and they move away from where those signals are coming from. he also said that its been documented that animals of different species communicate with each other when something is wrong. he said the fish can sense the vibrations in the water and start acting squirrelly.. and the sea birds see that and fly to land and start circling and squacking (ive seen this in hawaii before big storms).. then the land animals and small birds see that then they all start acting squirrelly and thats the signal that the sh1ts gonna hit the fan so they all split. its just so cool. i was really worried about all the nature preserves in those areas.. lots of orangs (shelly
) im so glad that they arent like us and havent lost their 6th sense.
YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka (AP) - 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.
Floodwaters from the tsunami swept into the park, uprooting trees and toppling cars onto their roofs - one red car even ended up on top of a huge tree - but the animals apparently were not harmed and may have sought out high ground, said Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, whose Jetwing Eco Holidays ran a hotel in the park.
``This is very interesting. I am finding bodies of humans, but I have yet to see a dead animal,'' said Wijeyeratne, whose hotel in the park was totally destroyed in Sunday's tidal surge.
``Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth sense,'' Wijeyeratne said.
Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200 Asian Elephants, crocodile, wild boar, water buffalo and gray langur monkeys. The park also has Asia's highest concentration of leopards. The Yala reserve covers an area of 391 square miles, but only 56 square miles are open to tourists.
The human death toll in Sri Lanka surpassed 21,000. Forty foreigners were among 200 people in Yala who were killed.
? Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
12/29/2004 06:18
APO
this is such a cool story. they interviewed jack hannah (guy that brings animals on talk shows) on cnn, and he was saying that animals can sense the electro magnetic signals and can sense when something is about to happen.. and they move away from where those signals are coming from. he also said that its been documented that animals of different species communicate with each other when something is wrong. he said the fish can sense the vibrations in the water and start acting squirrelly.. and the sea birds see that and fly to land and start circling and squacking (ive seen this in hawaii before big storms).. then the land animals and small birds see that then they all start acting squirrelly and thats the signal that the sh1ts gonna hit the fan so they all split. its just so cool. i was really worried about all the nature preserves in those areas.. lots of orangs (shelly
) im so glad that they arent like us and havent lost their 6th sense.
