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Snakes & Quakes

blowitch Dec 28, 2006 12:28 PM

This is pretty neat, yet another advancement in science thanks to the wonderful world of serpents.

-John
China using snakes to predict earthquakes

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j3nnay Dec 28, 2006 01:04 PM

Seems like common sense to me. "Look, the snakes are all frantically trying to get away! What on earth could be making these snakes go ballistic?"
My family used to live in LA, near the San Andreas fault. At that time we still owned several macaws, and we always knew when an earthquake was coming because those birds would go NUTS before it happened. The last earthquake I remember while we still had them, they went off screaming and shrieking and woke up the whole house (and neighborhood) about an hour before it hit.

It pays to pay attention to critters

~jenny
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