If animals can sense natural disasters, why can't humans?

Question

When the tsunami hit hardly any animals died, but thousands of people died. They can also sense tornados, and earthquakes.

Answer 1

This is a very good question. Alas, many scientists have asked this question but found only one answer. Evolution. When we evolved we lost that "Sixth Sense" you're asking. That "Sixth Sense" that let's animals sense disasters. I can only guess why we lost this sense. It's like asking why we dont have any NATURAL defense systems since of course we use guns, tools, to defend ouselves against anything and everything. Our evolution hasn't been nice to us at all. We are by far the strangest creatures on Earth. Just look at us we are the only primates who walk on our two legs, don't have any natural defense systems AND lost on the way our sixth sense.

So the answer to your question is one word, Evolution.

Answer 2

As already discussed, we tend to be preoccupied with our synthetic interface to our environment.

In fact, we as human species are becoming a natural disaster by ourself.

Back on the subject . . . some natural events like earthquakes send a low frequency rythm through the ground, oceans, and weaker in the air.

Our current senses do not cover these rythms any more. This does not mean we can not recover. If we are genetically related to all forms of life on earth, then we carry the hidden ability. Like everything else in life, it takes motive and a little hard work to get the hang of it.

Answer 3

Animals are in tune with their basic instints, where as human we are not as intuned anymore. In all reality, we still have our natural instincts we just do not remember how to understand them. If you pay close attention to your surrounding, you will find that you still have this sense to a small degree. Just b4 a storm hits as you see the clouds rolling in concentrate on what your eyes are seeing, you should be able to see glittery specks moving about, most ppl get beromitor headaches, which is a slight heavy feeling for most ppl at the tops of your head, b4 a storm hits. But us as humans are trained from birth to rely on doplar and the weather man "statistics" to find out what might happen, but look around you become intune with your own body, dont brush off the minor heavy feeling in your head or rub ur eyes when you see spots, or think you are just getting a chill when its warm out, but you get small goose bumps in your skin. Your body does tell you what could be coming your way, you just have to retrain yourself and learn to see past the radar and doplar on the tv, and look at your own body for the answers. And never ignore that gut feeling, your body knows alot more about your own surroundings than you do

Answer 4

i really do no longer have self assurance that animals can listen the grinding of tectonic plates, a minimum of till an earthquake actually occurs. i'd opt to work out any information about the auditory platforms of any animals that are suspected to be able to target this. i imagine that the association of animals with the prediction of disaster calls for sturdy clinical info, no longer anecdote.

Answer 5

As we became more civilized, for better or worse and through the lack of need, we have lost many of our innate abilities.

Havng said that most animals can swim to safety & don't usually go surfing. Once they sence disaster looming, they run! While humans have too much curiosity and attachemnt to their stuff over their lives.

Also, did people specifically go looking for animals other than Cats & Dogs?

Answer 6

I think the animals knew better than to go charging out onto the surf when it receeded before the tsunami. See what happens when you cut science from schools.

Answer 7

Animals have a much more advanded sense of smell then humans do. So therefore they would be able to smell the changes of oxygen levels in the sky.

Answer 8

Folklores say that before sending animals and humanbeings to Earth, God awarded different virtues to everybody so as to make them live happily and in self-security. HE was allotting one by one, and Man was standing in the row at last number. So when his turn comes, Gods plate was almost empty as HE had delivered all those inner-strengths to animals. So, instead of awarding that kind of quality (as you put in question), God gave Man "Sense of Supremacy"....and that sense later made the Man to feel "I am boss"....actually he is nothing really except material pleasure....and his nothingness reflects in those moments like "Tsunami"....Earthquake, Flood...etc......

Answer 9

we used to be able to when we lived outside and we were connected to the earth. think about how animals are affected by pressure and earth movements, they don't have shoes, no clothes, they are constantly feeling things. it has nothing to do with a sixth sense, it is the fact that they are connected to the changes in their environment and we developed instruments to now do that for us so we lost the ability.

Answer 10

I think we can we just ignore the warning. Like the night before a bad storm I suffer from insomnia and nightmares.