12 SHTF Warning Signs From Animals
When it comes to natural disasters, animals are way further ahead of the curve than people are. They just seem to be able to sense change in the air. If you know what to look for, you can take advantage of the warning signs exhibited by your four-legged forecasters and winged weathermen.
Before casting this particular article aside, consider the fact that when the tsunami hit Thailand in 2004, nearly all of the animals who were free to roam made it to higher ground and survived. More than 200,000 humans died. That’s either one tremendous coincidence or the animals knew something that we didn’t.
Nowhere in the following paragraphs are we going to mention any kind of puppy ESP because that’s not what this is about. What we WILL discuss is the potential science behind how animals know when a SHTF situation is about to occur.
We’re also going to touch on 12 warning signs from animals for SHTF. First, let’s discuss HOW they know that weather is changing.
Infrasonics are extremely low-pitched vibrations and are emitted by such natural disasters as earthquakes and tidal waves. Infrasonic vibration causes nausea and nervousness in people.
Animals such as cows, horses, and elephants can hear lower levels than we can so maybe they interpret these vibrations as signs of danger and head for safety. They may also be able to feel them with their feet.
If you notice your animals fretting, or happen to live where you can see elephants migrating, take heed.
Barometric (air) and hydrostatic (water) pressure changes are more noticeable to animals than they are to most humans.
When hydrostatic pressure drops, such as it does before hurricanes and other storms, sharks head to deeper water where it’s safe. Bees and other land-dwelling animals react similarly when barometric pressure drops.
All of their senses are just better. When it comes right down to it, people just can’t feel, hear, see, smell or taste nearly as well as many other species.
When it comes to using our senses to detect the weather, we may be able to sense drops in pressure or temperature but we simply can’t hold a candle to an elephant’s sense of feel or a dog’s sense of smell or ability to hear.
As promised, we’re going to toss in a list of animal behaviors that you should watch out for.
If you see these changes, especially if you see more than one of these animals acting like this, take heed because something heavy is on the way.
- Bees stop flying around and go to hive.
- Birds go to their trees and aren’t flying around. They may migrate completely away.
- Fish bite hard one day then completely disappear the next day, or even a few hours later.
- Cows and other animals head to high ground and safety.
- Dogs and cats go missing. One guy checks lost animal posts in his local newspaper and actually uses that as one of his prediction tools for earthquakes.
- Fish jumping an unusual amount, or fish that don’t typically jump, particularly catfish, are jumping. There is some speculation that they can sense changes in the electrical impulses in the air or water caused by impending disasters such as earthquakes.
- If you live in an area that has a lot of frogs, they are prone to disappear prior to earthquakes and other natural disasters.
- Chickens may become agitated and stop laying eggs a few days before a major storm.
- Dogs become more agitated and may bark more or even become aggressive a few days before a major SHTF weather event. They may even refuse to go on a walk or walk to a certain area, such as by the water, during their walks.
- Horses, dogs, monkeys, and other pets may refuse food or treats several hours prior to a natural SHTF occurrence.
- Bats may be awake and active in the middle of the day a few minutes or even hours prior to a natural disaster occurring.
- Just for fun, we want to throw in an 12th sign – HUMAN babies tend to become anxious and irritable when extreme changes in weather are coming.
It’s this last observation that makes you really stop and think. There’s no doubt that animals excel at using their senses to survive but perhaps people have better radar than we think. Maybe we just need to focus on it more and hone it, just like we do any other skill.
Using animals to predict weather isn’t just backwoods mumbo-jumbo. Millions of dollars per year are being invested in finding out how effective animals are at predicting weather. Scientists know that there’s something more to it that just random luck and they’re working diligently to prove it. They would even like to use it to anticipate when and where natural disasters are going to occur.
Don’t make the mistake of writing off your animals’ weird behavior shifts: they may be the best predictor of SHTF that you could ever ask for!
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This is not new, but it is largely ignored. Thank you for the reminder.
I am not particularly impressed with this article, however I would like to share an experience I had which is valid concerning this.
On the morning of the Nisqually 7.7 earthquake (downgraded to 7.?), I was first awakened by my neighbors sheep, they where all screaming they’re fool heads of around 7AM. Never heard sheep screaming like that, hundred of em all screaming at once, it was loud. I shrugged it off after looking up there “must be hungry”. I got dressed and headed to work, a 28 mile drive in the country….
On my way to work I noticed EVERY cow and horse (several hundred cattle a couple dozen horses )I passed where laying down. Every single one in every field. “That’s odd” , I thought.
So I did notice the signs, I just didn’t know what they meant.
I tell you what, when that quaking set in my mind was making the same sound those sheep where making, lol.
So why are you not impressed with the article
— I find it very informative.
And pigs fly
very good choice of names.
I just watch my cat. Every time a storm is coming she starts running around the house at full speed for hours. It was actually funny until I made the connection. But she is consistent every time….
Good Article … Sri Lankan wildlife officials were stunned … After the worst tsunami (2004) in memory had killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast, but they couldn’t find any dead animals.
Giant waves washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards… The strange thing was the official dint record any dead animals…No elephants were dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit… Animals can sense disaster … They have a sixth sense ( Infrasonic vibration sense ) They know when things are happening… At least 40 tourists, including nine Japanese, were drowned…As we know the tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean… which sent waves up to 15 feet high crashing onto Sri Lanka’s southern, eastern and northern seaboard, flooding whole towns and villages, destroying hotels and causing widespread destruction.
“If we could walk with the animals, talk with the animals, what a safer place this world would be…” E von Muggenthaler, after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake and tsunami…
We too are animals, biologically speaking, except many of us have lost the intuitive ability to see and feel because we deny our intuitions in favor of status quo garbage.
We also are the worst kind of animals as we have continuously shown contempt for each other with wars, genocides, religious persecutions and oppressions, rapes, torture, aggression–all manner of cruelties.
Very well stated.
I spent 25+ years taking children’s portraits. It is absolutely true about babies, infants, and most young children are very good weather forecasters. Older people can feel it as well, but they tend to mask it fairly well.
I was a parrot breeder for 17 years. For 3 days straight, before the 89 quake on the Loma Prieta fault line, all of our parrots ate everything in their feed bowls. They normally would eat their favorite feed in their bowls and leave the rest, and wait for the next feeding. They would get a bowl of seed and a bowl of pelleted feed. But not these 3 days leading up the 6.9 earthquake. Every single bowl in every single cage was emptied completely for 2 feedings a day for 3 days in a row. Now we watch for that same thing to happen, making note of it to see if they can predict the next one. If they do, I will be posting it here!