Animals have a premonition of the mystery of disaster
On December 26, 2004, an unprecedented sea tsunami swept through the countries along the Indian Ocean coast,
Hundreds of thousands of lives were engulfed in an instant. However, experts at Sri Lanka's wildlife conservation site were surprised to find that the zoo after being swept by the waves did not have a single animal carcass. Where did these animals hide when the sea came?
Animals that survive in the sea
To count wildlife losses along the Indian Ocean coast during the Indian Ocean in 2004, some animal watchers came to Sri Lanka.
The survey found that in a yale region in southeast sri Lanka, on the day of the Indian Ocean tsunami, the flood caused by the tsunami penetrated 3 kilometers inland, killing more than 200 local residents. However, after the flood receded, the locals were very surprised to find that more than 200 Asian elephants living in the animal nature reserve with an area of about 1,000 square kilometers, as well as countless wild animals such as leopards, bison, and wild boars, had successfully escaped, and not even a hare was lost in the reserve.
Not only that, as early as two days before the occurrence of the sea, some deep-sea fish also had a collective flight. Fishermen in Malaysia's Kuwa Ramda Disaster Zone reported that many dolphins swam very close to the beach and jumped out of the sea to swing their tails. In the first three days of the tsunami, the local fishermen caught 20 times more fish than before, which is a staggering number. However, just as the people were celebrating this rare "harvest," the sea was coming.
Coincidentally, an Associated Press reporter flew in a helicopter over a small island in Sri Lanka to conduct an interview while it was in the sea. According to his later recollection, "At that time, countless bats roosted in caves on the island, and they went into the caves during the day to sleep, and only came out at night to move. But on the morning of the sea, bats flew out of the caves. ”
Animals that can predict disasters
In the past, the crew sailing at sea feared rats on the ship the most, because once there was a rat plague, the ship's rations could not be saved. Although the crew did not like rats, it would not be a good thing to see rats leave the ship for no reason.
As early as the Middle Ages, sailors in some European countries, whenever the ship set sail, once they found that the rat left the ship ashore, they were reluctant to take the ship to sea. Because they believe that rats have the ability to perceive future unfortunate events. Later it turned out that the rats' senses were indeed very sensitive, especially in the face of disasters such as earthquakes. Historical records record that on the eve of the 1971 earthquake, people once saw large groups of rats fleeing from the neighborhood on the streets of San Francisco.
Not only mice, but other animals also seem to have this magical ability. In 1853, when Charles Dalvi was sailing on the coast of South America on the ship Bigley, he suddenly found a large group of seabirds lifting off in large flocks and fleeing deep into the mainland, and just as the old man was marveling at this rare landscape, the famous Chilean earthquake in history occurred.
In February 1975, it happened once in Haicheng, China. A magnitude 4 earthquake. It is said that before the earthquake, some animals were observed to have abnormal phenomena: it was the middle of winter, but the hibernating snakes suddenly woke up, and hundreds of snakes crawled around on the road, some climbed into the house, and some even climbed into the well.
In view of the special sensitivity of animals to disasters, in the 1970s, China really used observation animals to predict earthquakes, the most famous of which was the predicted Haicheng earthquake. To this day, there are still many civil society organizations that believe that animals can predict disasters, at least earthquakes. To this end, they also raised a large number of animals and observed them.
Nowadays, there is a proverb in the folklore: "Cows, sheep, mules and horses do not enter the stables, and pigs do not eat dog bites." Ducks do not go down to the shore, chickens fly up trees and shout. The icy snake came out of the hole, and the rat ran with the mouse. Rabbits jump and bump, and fish jump on the surface of the water in panic. The swarms of bees roared, and the pigeons flew back to their nests. "It is said that as soon as these phenomena are seen, great things will happen.
Some animals can predict war
Some animals are more remarkable than those that can predict disasters, and their extraordinary abilities in wartime are even comparable to modern high-tech military radars.
In 390 BC, the Romans lost battle against the Gauls,
Forced to retreat to the steep summit of Capitol Mountain. In the night, the Gallic warriors sneaked up from the cliffs, and even the dogs that were sent out did not alarm. Suddenly, the white geese raised in the Roman army rattled and woke up the sleeping Roman warriors, thanks to the white geese, and the proud Romans were able to save their capital.
During the Second World War, British cats were particularly prominent in this regard, and whenever the city's air raid sirens sounded, these little guys would be anxious, hunched backs, vertical hairs, and even hissing in the direction of the fighter jets.
It is said that some cats are even more remarkable, and they will rush all the way in the direction where the enemy aircraft will fly before the air raid siren is sounded, so as to attract the attention of passers-by. With this super premonition ability, these cute cats really saved many British lives during the war years. To this end, the british government also made a special medal for these premonition cats after the war. The medal is engraved with "We also serve the motherland"!
The corresponding thing happened in Germany, where a resident of the beautiful city of Freiburg had a white goose, and before each Allied air raid, the guy would go crazy and rattling and sounding the alarm to his master. At this time, the host will greet the neighbors, take the family with the mouth, and follow the white goose to run outside the city. After the war, the local residents thanked the white goose for saving his life, and specially erected a statue for it in the city center to commemorate it.
Animals have the superpowers of the uncertain prophets
Does the animal's ability to hunch really exist? To understand this problem, we must first understand that before the disaster occurred, the animals foresaw the coming of the disaster. Or do they sense something before we do in the moment of disaster?
Before the earthquake, some animals had anomalies, which is indeed documented. However, we should also pay attention to the fact that animal anomalies can have many factors, climate factors, temperature changes, or various factors, but it does not necessarily mean that earthquakes occur. This causal relationship is not unique.
For example, folk use some abnormal phenomenon of animals to predict the weather. We often say swallows fly low,
Ants move, which is a precursor to rain, and it is also the application of this characteristic of animals, which makes a certain sense. Because the humidity of the air changed before the rain and the air pressure was low, there were some more abnormal phenomena in the swallows and ants. However, the accuracy rate of this kind of thing is too low, so people now basically stop looking at animals to predict weather changes.
Therefore, there is a scientific part of animal premonition: for example, some animals, with their more sensitive organs than humans, pre-perceive the occurrence of disaster. But this statement also has a deductive component: that is, people observe one or two events of animal premonition, do not know the scientific principles in it, and think that animals can understand the gods.
With the development of science, some animal premonition events have been deciphered, but there are still some things that science has not fully understood, and animal observations are still necessary, such as earthquake forecasting. Therefore, there must be a process for people to understand animals, and with the deepening of understanding, the mysterious color of animals will gradually weaken.
Where does an animal's sixth sense come from?
As we all know, the usual sensory system is to see, hear, smell, touch, and taste, known as the five senses. On the one hand, the reason for the animal's premonition is that these five senses are superior, whether it is marine life, birds or animals, the vast majority of them have the ability to feel the subtle vibrations and changes of the earth, air and water. Simply put, at least one of their five senses is extremely acute, like a dog's nose and a cat's eyes. Many animals have a much greater sensory sensitivity than humans.
On the other hand, animals do have other senses, in addition to the ability to perceive the five senses, there is also the ability to perceive other information, such as the ability to change the Earth's magnetic field. The most typical is that migratory birds can find a route home every year and will not be lost anyway.
French zoologist and elephant expert Pierre Pfeifer believes through research that the elephant's ears can hear infrasounds that humans cannot hear, so as to perceive the terrifying ocean waves in front of them. In addition, elephants rely on the plantar vaults covered with matter, and they can also feel the abnormality of the pulse of the earth before the earthquake occurs. Through the horns on the plantar vaults, elephants are extremely sensitive to every vibration of the earth. That's why elephants living in Sri Lanka's Yale Nature Reserve not only anticipate the danger of seas and earthquakes, but also accurately determine where the danger is coming from. So naturally, they escaped the hills and escaped disaster.
In addition, some social animals also have efficient "alarm codes", that is, they can make special calls before they detect disasters to remind their companions to flee from disasters. Elephants emit 20 decibel-high vibrato through the sinuses located at the junction of the proboscis and skull. If there is no obstacle to block it, this vibrato can be perceived by another elephant 80 kilometers away. Even if there are obstacles in the middle, its transmission range can reach a radius of 10 kilometers!
Do humans also have a sixth sense?
The reason why animals have a keen sense ability is also related to their universal perception of external hormones (pheromones). What are exohormones? To put it bluntly, animals secrete chemicals that are used to influence the behavior of animals of the same species. Through research, scientists have determined that the organ of extrasensory hormones is called the "plow nasal apparatus", which is a cartilage structure located at the bottom of the nasal septum.
In fact, humans also have external hormones, there are also "plow nose organs", but the human "plough nose organ" has been highly degenerated, only in fetuses and newborns there is a significant "plough nose organ" structure.
Humans also have this ability when they are born. When a child is born, he goes to his mother's nipple to feed, and he actually relies on external hormones to find it. But when you grow up, this function degenerates. Now about 70% of the people can no longer find the "nose plower", but 30% of the people can still see the existence of the "plow nose device", and there is a remnant there, but there is no nerve, basically does not work.
Although humans have degenerated in terms of extrasensory hormones compared to animals, the parts of evolution are different because of different needs. For example, our human vision ability is enhanced, and our vision is actually very good compared to that of ordinary animals. This vision is manifested in the ability to perceive color. There is also hearing, we can completely hear sounds in the 560-degree range, which is also impossible for ordinary animals.