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I caught an NBC Nightly News report on Armed Forces Network last night pointing out that no animal corpses have been found in the wake of the tsunami. This echoes an earlier report from Slate on the same topic (note that both are msn.com):
There's a good chance the wildlife knew trouble was on the way. History is littered with tales about animals acting weirdly before natural disasters, but the phenomenon has been hard for scientists to pin down. Sometimes animals get crazy before a quake, sometimes they don't. Here's what we know: Animals have sensory abilities different from our own, and they might have tipped them off to Sunday's disaster.
Via Scott Ott we find this story:
PHUKET, Thailand ? The third time was the charm.Rescue workers freed a humpback dolphin from a small lagoon where the Asian tsunami dumped it and returned it to the Andaman Sea in a rare story of survival 10 days after the massive waves crushed posh tourist resorts in the surrounding Khao Lak area.
I don't mean to refute the essence of the animal story in any way here - just noting that apparently some individual animals have a more highly attuned sense of danger than others.
Relief flights into the heart of the Indonesian disaster zone were stopped yesterday when a cargo plane hit a buffalo on landing at Banda Aceh airport and crashed to a halt.<...>
The undercarriage of the Boeing 737, a passenger plane converted to carry cargo, was badly damaged in the crash and there was no heavy lifting equipment available in Banda Aceh to remove it from the runway.
No word on the condition of the Buffalo.
