Scientists have long been concerned with the issue of behaviorvarious animals before the earthquake. He worries researchers around the world. This interest was recorded even before our era (328). Ancient scientist wrote that five days before the terrible earthquake in the Greek city of Helikos, weasels and moles, centipedes and echidna left their burrows and fled.
Despite this, for a long time the unusual behavior of animals before the earthquake was not investigated by scientists. Actively deal with this issue began in the early XX century.
Do not be surprised, but perhaps in your homelive live indicator of earthquakes. Of course, we will talk about our pets. Someone has dogs or cats, some have cute hamsters or slow turtles. Many prefer to watch tropical fish or funny parrots. Sometimes neither the owner of the animal, nor the experienced zoologist is able to explain some actions and actions of pets.
Sometimes animal behavior goes beyondordinary and, as it seems to us, have no apparent cause. Quite possibly, your pet felt the approach of the beginning of the tremors and wants to warn you about it.
On the behavior of pets beforeearthquake in seismically dangerous areas have long began to pay attention to the owners. After strong earthquakes people remembered that their pets gave them a sign. For example, a calm dog usually starts to rush about and finds no place, trying in every possible way to leave the room, or the mice suddenly leave the barn amicably. Many animals before the earthquake show unusual activity. For example, snakes come to the surface of the earth at an unseasonable hour.
Observant and attentive person is compulsorywill notice that the behavior of pets before the earthquake varies. But it should be noted that not all of our four-legged friends have the capabilities of seismic indicators. In addition, even different individuals of the same species are often endowed with different abilities. Identify in the behavior of the animal something unusual, which may indicate seismic disturbances, can only be after a careful and long observation of it.
Observations of animal behavior led toThe emergence of such fields of science as seismogmology and bioseismology. Scientists around the world are trying to reveal one of the greatest mysteries of nature - the possibility of living beings to foresee the approach of danger.
Arguing about how pets react to an earthquake, it is necessary to get acquainted with examples, which people who survived this natural phenomenon tell about.
In September 1927 in the Crimea, 12 hours before the onset of the tremors, the cows abandoned the food and began to moo anxiously, the horses were tearing themselves off, the cats and dogs were clinging to their masters and howling and mewling.
In Ashgabat (1948), at the stud farm, the behavior of animals before an earthquake was even more turbulent. The horses knocked out the gates of the stable and burst out. Two hours later, the building collapsed from an earthquake.
This dog became famous after Spitakearthquakes. On December 7, A. Garibyan and his darling went for an ordinary walk. It was in the city of Leninakan. Alice refused to return to the house. She howled and barked. The frightened owner called the police, the radio, the city council, but nowhere did he take his messages seriously.
Garibyan decided to play it safe and brought hisrelatives from home. He recommended the same to the neighbors. It was at this time that the elements were played out. Garibyan brought her savior from Kamchatka, where he lived for many years.
Speaking about how pets react to the approach of an earthquake, it should be noted that in Chile in 1835, every single dog left the city of Talkuano.
Before the start of the aftershocks in the Italian province of Friuli (in 1976), all cats carried their kittens out of their homes.
12 hours before the earthquake in Morocco (1980), cats and dogs began to leave their homes. And even the camels, indifferent to everything, hurried to leave the settlements.
How do pets react to approachingearthquakes, scientists were interested after in 1975, it was possible to successfully predict an earthquake in the province of Liaoning (China), largely based on the unusual and strange behavior of animals. Snakes crawled out of the underground holes, waking from their hibernation, and their pets were in a hurry to leave their homes. It was decided to evacuate the residents of the city of Xicheng. Soon the town was wiped off the face of the earth by a strong earthquake. Accurate forecast and timely actions of the authorities helped to reduce the number of victims to a minimum.
In 1976, scientists gathered in the United States to discuss the possibilities of the bio-prediction of earthquakes. Representatives of science recognized that this phenomenon should be studied more carefully.
Observing amphibians, scientists found thatfive days before the earthquake, the males of toads in the city of L "Akuila urgently left the spawning grounds and returned there several days after everything calmed down. Scientists have not yet managed to explain this behavior of animals before the earthquake. It is known that toads are very susceptible to weather extremes, but the weather stations did not record any changes in the weather before the start of the aftershocks.
According to the researchers, the most sensitivecrocodiles are considered living seismographs. They did not miss a single natural anomaly. Five hours before the start of the strongest earthquake on the island of Honshu, alligators began to make loud sounds that very much resembled a growl, they raised their tails and heads upwards. You must admit that such uncharacteristic behavior of animals during an earthquake cannot go unnoticed.
Crocodiles can sense an approaching earthquake 150 km from the epicenter.
Scientists believe that the ability to predictabnormal natural phenomena possess more than 600 species of animals. They are endowed with sharks. Any changes in atmospheric pressure affect water pressure, which, in turn, affects the behavior of the above-mentioned inhabitants of the depths.
Phenomenal "seismic" instinct endowedA very small fish called Nile elephant. In the mountainous areas of the Pamirs an aquarium with these creatures is installed, which four days before the earthquake begins to behave restlessly.
There is a scientific theory that bottom fish are seismically sensitive.
Горные козлы спускаются с хребтов на равнины за a few days before the start of tremors. From the forest go wolves and foxes. The marmots, even lay down for hibernation, wake up one day before the disaster and leave their burrows. As you can see, the behavior of animals during an earthquake is reduced to the desire to leave the territory of seismic excitement.
On the Indonesian island of Sumatra the evening beforeearthquakes from the mountains descended thirty elephants. They lined up without touching the crops or buildings. Mighty animals just stood and looked at the doomed village, and then turned around and disappeared into the jungle. Today, the inhabitants of the destroyed village are sure that the animals warned them about the danger, but remained not understood by people.
In the state of California (USA), where the mostdevastating earthquakes, placed cells with mice and rats. They are watched by the latest electronic devices. At the slightest change in the behavior of animals, the signal goes to the specialists of the Center for Seismography.
Today we told you how homework reacts.animals on the approach of an earthquake. Perhaps, if you watch your pets carefully, you can avoid many troubles that nature can present to us.
