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A Chinese zoo is monitoring its animals extra carefully to study how their behaviour predicts earthquakes, the China Daily said on Tuesday.

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STONERS
May 22, 2007, 2:26 a.m.
"We have found many animals behave oddly before an earthquake," the newspaper quoted experts as saying. "Hibernating animals, for example, will wake up and flee from their caves, while the aquatic ones will leap from the water's surface."
The report did not say how long before a quake the animals react, or whether the aim of the exercise was to provide timely warnings.
According to the seismology office, abnormal behaviour can be observed among 130 animals before an earthquake.
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invest07
May 22, 2007, 3:19 p.m.
One of the most interesting earthquake predictors I have heard of uses the Lost and Found ads in California newspapers. It appears that the number of runaway dogs and cats zooms a day or two prior to an earthquake.
Interesting....Very interesting
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nostalgia
May 22, 2007, 4:04 p.m.
There have been other reports that animals seem to know about impending disasters
Did Animals Sense Tsunami Was Coming?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01...
Here's another one on animals and earthquakes
http://www.meteoquake.org/animals.html
It is a fascinating topic
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BronxBomber
May 22, 2007, 9:47 p.m.
The Chinese must know they're stuff, after all, they learned, cultivated martial arts from observing animal interaction for instance, why not earthquakes too?