'No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit'...

reuters ^ | Dec. 29, 2004 | drudgereport

[crushelits]

Where Are All the Dead Animals? Sri Lanka Asks

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals. more ...

[Conspiracy Guy]

No surprise here.

[jmhfnyc]

Yeah, the next time I see an elephant make for high ground, I'm right behind him.

[Kurt_D]

I find it highly interesting though...

[MaineRepublic]

Animals don't usually live right on the coast. And they can usually swim better than humans if they have to stay afloat for a few minutes until they find dry ground.

[najida]

They ran.

Up hill.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Animals pay more attention, than most humans do, to what is going on.

[firewalk]

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[GeekDejure]

Ummm... I think it's called "Survival of the Smartest" !!! ;-))

[cotton1706]

It says that Colombo is on it. He'll find them.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I have followed the animals' lead for most of my life. I freak people out sometimes with my awareness.

[EagleUSA]

I live in earthquake country. California, most of my life. I have watched animals, my own, freak out prior to earthquakes before we (humans) even feel anything, many seconds before. Cats, dogs, even reports of cattle sensing the coming quake before we do.

Nothing new -- there should be alot of data on this on the Net.

[coloradan]

How many dead rabbits haven't been found, because they ran into their warrens upon hearing the noise, and have been drowned and buried there, out of sight?

[jammer]

Good point. And how many elephants were sunbathing, topless or not, on the beach?

[escapefromboston]

They found not ONE single dead polar bear.

[MaineRepublic]

These places are usually crawling with monkeys. I wonder how the monkeys all faired with this tsunami.

[Ladysmith]

Workers walk on the foundation of the damaged Yala Safari Game Lodge close to Yala Reserve Wildlife Park, 200 kilometers (125 miles) southeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004. Wild life officials 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. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

[F15Eagle]

Animals often know when something is coming and flee. I'm not surprised. Of course, they do still get eaten, too. 8)

[GeekDejure]

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Hello, Beef Ore Ice Leap...

Looks like you lost your mind !!! ;-))

[Howlin]

Actually, animals are very attuned to nature. I bet they sensed it.

[Zacs Mom]

[Rodney King]

Everybody needs to get over the "animals are so smart" thing. There is a good reason why no elephants died. How many elephants hang out at the beach with sunbathers?

[silverleaf]

No dead Israelis there, either...
Hmmm, what did they know and when did they know it?/sarc

[Gabz]

While you are correct about the elephants and sunbathing, the hotel/lodge attached to the game preserve where the animals were located was destroyed by the tsunami - so it actually wasn't that far from the beach and sunbathers.

[GeekDejure]

How many dead rabbits haven't been found, because they ran into their warrens upon hearing the noise, and have been drowned and buried there, out of sight?
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Spoilsport !!! ;-))

[Rodney King]

While you are correct about the elephants and sunbathing, the hotel/lodge attached to the game preserve where the animals were located was destroyed by the tsunami - so it actually wasn't that far from the beach and sunbathers.

Sure, but you didn't need to be that far in to survive, and I doubt that the elephants hang out at the part of the preserve that is nearest the hotel. Whenever I go to the zoo, the elephants are always as far away from the people as possible.

[dead]

Exactly. And even elephants that are caught in a tsunami are far more resilent and less likely to be crushed by debris like a puny little human. A tree trunk hits a human, it kills him. A tree trunk hits an elephant, he grunts.

And the reason that nobody has reported any dead rabbits is because anybody that found one likely ate it and correctly assumed it wasn't newsworthy.

This is just dopey hippy spin.

[WildTurkey]

"I say, Rabbits can swim."

[GeekDejure]

How many elephants hang out at the beach with sunbathers?
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Ummm... 736 1/2 ??? ;-))

[Rodney King]

And the reason that nobody has reported any dead rabbits is because anybody that found one likely ate it and correctly assumed it wasn't newsworthy.

Or, as someone else pointed out, they all drowned in the burrows.

This is just dopey hippy spin.

I'm surprised at how many on FR buy into it.

[GeekDejure]

No No ... 33 1/3 !!! ;-))

[Conspiracy Guy]

That is what I thought I said. I may need more coffee.

[Lazamataz]

This is just dopey hippy spin.

Happy dippy hippy spin on hippy-hoppy rabbit sprints.

[Lazamataz]

Happy dippy hippy spin on hippy-hoppy rabbit sprints.

Try'n say that one three times real fast.

I double-dog dare ya.

[Rodney King]

The other silly one is how the birds know the storm is coming five minutes before it hits. Our weathermen tells us a week before, yet the birds are so smart because they know five minutes before.

[Thrusher]

Actually, this was all a massive Zionist conspiracy. More than 3,000 animals did not report to work on the day of the tsunami. The earthquake was caused by the same evil weather-machine that Bush used to make all those hurricanes hit Florida so he could get reelected.

[Rodney King]

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[dead]

Well, some birds can learn to say a few words in human talk, and we can't learn to say a single thing in bird.

Oh wait, yes we can. We call them in bird language right before we shoot them.

Dumb birds.

[dead]

Try'n say that one three times real fast.

Yeah, just the sort of thing I want everybody to overhear me muttering repeatedly in my cubicle. It’s bad enough that I randomly laugh out loud and then pretend I’m coughing.

[television is just wrong]

They sense it , and they run. I'm running with the elephants. Well probably quite a few yards tbehind, but running away from danger.

[television is just wrong]

they have more sense with that kind of thing.

[cyborg]

Many horse ranchers out West can personally testify to horses being able to sense earthquakes,etc. They have senses we humans don't have. I think it's just basic biology.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I have followed the animals' lead for most of my life. I freak people out sometimes with my awareness."

I don't think it's your awareness that freaks them out...just the way you sit in the corner and lick yourself...#;-)

[television is just wrong]

They have more insight in different areas than we have. Our brains are more cerebral in nature.
Dogs and cats can sense it too. My cocker spaniel stood in the dining room before the 94 earthquake in L.A. barking at the corner of the dining room. Shortly after that we had the ride of our lives. The parakeets acted up also that we had at the time.

[Rad_J]

This article is total BS. There were dead fish all over the place!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I can only attribute this the timely infusion of a promise of 100,000 Euros by the French Government.

[Lazamataz]

Many horse ranchers out West can personally testify to horses being able to sense earthquakes,etc. They have senses we humans don't have. I think it's just basic biology.

I have an innate sense of when a woman's warming up to me.

Usually I can tell somewhere between her disrobing and the cigarette after.

[cyborg]

LOL!!!!

[thefactor]

Is this related to the 4,000 Israelis who didn't go to the beach that day? Maybe the animals had something to do with all of this?

[Lazamataz]

Yeah, just the sort of thing I want everybody to overhear me muttering repeatedly in my cubicle.

Beats me by a mile.

I'm constantly muttering about "killing them all" when I surf DU.

Co-workers won't go out to lunch with me any more.