Recently, according to media reports, there has been a rare "crow storm" over Xining City, Qinghai, and we can clearly see from the video footage taken at the scene that thousands of crows are flying around Xining City for a long time, and they do not want to leave for a long time, as if they want to convey some kind of information to the people below.
Subsequently, the news spread to the Internet and quickly caused a fierce discussion among the majority of netizens, some netizens believed that crows were ominous birds, and the appearance of so many crows may indicate that disasters are about to occur. It is worth mentioning that there have been five earthquakes in the Qinghai connection recently, but will the "crow storm" over Xining indicate that the earthquake is about to occur? Can animals really predict earthquakes? Pay attention to scientific beasts and be the first to learn about the latest information.
What does the "Crow Storm" herald?
Before talking about these problems, let's first briefly understand the crow, the crow is not actually a single bird, but a general term for a variety of black birds in the genus Of the passerine crow family, our daily common crow body length of about 50 cm, covered with dark black feathers, its main habitat in low mountains, plains or broad-leaved forests, but how does the crow and the "ominous bird" related?
On this issue, in fact, we have to start from the folk sayings on the mainland, the folk believe that the crow is black, the sound is ugly, and it is also a scavenger, so the ancients believed that where the crow appeared, there would be casualties, and over time this statement was handed down, and the spectacle is that whenever there are major casualties in nature, almost all the crows can be found on the scene.
Western countries regard crows as "treasures"?
But the expert's explanation for this is that the crow is stimulated by the smell, not the initiator of the casualties, but this statement has not been recognized by people, which has also led to the crow's image on the mainland has been a bad reputation, but in some Western countries, the crow is regarded as a treasure, what is this?
In Canada, for example, crows are considered guides, and ancient Canadian legends record that after an extinct flood in ancient times, a crow found a surviving man and led the man to land, and then the crow brought the man to a woman and taught them to farm and hunt.
The United Kingdom introduced laws to protect crows
In Britain, the crow is even regarded as the "national treasure" of the British royal family, as early as 1555, the crow was protected by law in The United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom even has the legend that "if the crows in the Tower of London disappear, then the Kingdom of Britain will collapse", for this group of precious crows, the British government will allocate funds to raise crows in the Tower of London every year, and if someone sets up for the atrocities of the crows, it will face heavy penalties.
Speaking of Canada and Britain, let's look at Northern Europe, in Northern Europe the crow is regarded as the embodiment of thoughts and memories, legend has it that Odin, the king of the Norse gods, has only one eye to observe the world, and when the line of sight is blocked, he will send two crows on his shoulders to tour, which shows the status of crows in Norse mythology.
Will a crow storm be a precursor to an earthquake?
Let's look at Japan in Asia, the status of the crow in Japan is not inferior to northern Europe, Japan regards the crow as the "national bird", the ancient Japanese books record that Emperor Shenwu was lost in the forest during the Eastern Expedition, it was a black god bird that led him out of the forest, even today, the Japanese Football Association still uses the crow pattern as a totem. But since crows have such miraculous abilities, what does the "crow storm" that appears over Xining, Qinghai, herald? Could it be a precursor to an earthquake?
On this issue, the explanation given by experts is: qinghai Xining over the "crow storm" and earthquake is not related, according to the habits of crows, every year from the beginning of December to the beginning of February of the following year, the crows will depart from the cold snowy mountains, fly to the relatively warm Xining city, one is to forage on the way, the other is to avoid the cold, seeing that this may be curious to see the official to ask, then since the crows will come to Xining every year, then why is the time so much earlier this year?
Crow migration
This problem is actually not difficult to explain, first of all, this winter's abnormal climate, successive low temperature phenomena forced crows to leave early, and secondly, avoiding the cold is the nature of all birds, birds often stop in the city during migration, such as the large number of eagles that have appeared over Nanjing. Seeing this, there may be a curious official who wants to ask, so if this is the case, why does the time when the crow appears coincides with the time of the Qinghai earthquake? Are the two really just coincidences and not related?
In fact, after verification by experts, the main reason for the Qinghai earthquake is that the Qilian-Haiyuan tectonic belt is composed of many fault zones such as the Lenglongling Fault Zone, the Tolaishan Fault Zone in the west, and the Qilian-Sunan Fault Zone, which is not related to the emergence of crows.
Are crows really "ominous birds"?
In addition, experts also appealed: although the folk regard crows as ominous birds, but in the face of scientific evidence, we still have to believe in science, and crows can not predict earthquakes, the reason why many animals can perceive earthquakes in advance,
It is because these animals live on the ground all year round, most of these animals are rats, ants, chickens and ducks, they can detect the amplitude of the ground, so people have the misunderstanding that animals can predict earthquakes.
In the end, what do you think of the "crow storm" in Xining, Qinghai? Are "crow storms" really unrelated to earthquakes? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.