"Do you hear the crow is crowing ? now there will be another shake." "Do you hear that dog is barking ? this is a warning call.” Like me you must have heard it many times in last couple of weeks than ever before. I am hearing it, and sure it's not easy especially; when all of us are staying under the open sky and so worried; trying to figure out, what what is going on and what will happen next. Many around me, well they were college students, were screaming with every shake under our feet. And when it's not shaking all eyes and ears were over the head and on the sound of dog to take it as a clue for next shake. They observed, because, they have heard their elders saying it, 'they know about earthquake before us'. Let's agree, they know it better than us but how much their animal senses, will help us ?
It is said that the animals do have instinct to sense the earthquake before humans. We have read that even snake come out from its hibernation and goes to safe place long before the mega shake hits the earth. Mouse, dog, birds of many kind and elephants can sense it before high tech machines would alarm us. When you were running out of your shaky and wobbly home on April 25 at around 12, how many of you saw crow crowing or dog barking ? cat or mouse leaving houses ? Where as, I see all the people around me running to find safe place to save their lives. When we stopped they were shaking like a leaf and sharing the experience that they thought today all of us die.
We all know dog bark all the time, so crow crows all the time, yet I have to come across one single person who, was saved by the dog bark or crow's crow from mega earthquake. Lets believe they know it, before us, but, that knowledge is for themselves not for us.
Let's suppose, we keep taking clues from dog or crow, then, imagine what will happen next. we will find yourself running after the crow, when we wake up in the morning or when we are in the toilet, or taking shower or about to eat our meal. it could be anything you name it. If we run after the crow where will we find ourselves safe ? They can fly up in the sky but wherever we run, we are going to find our feets firmly fitted on the shaky earth. Another truth is, we can't run like dog all the time. What was hard to believe was well educated people around me were also taking clues from them and prepare to run. Now, the geologists from US, Australia, Canada, France have already predicted that there will be more aftershocks or even bigger than the first jolts which may go over a month or some extend the time limit over six month or a year. Then, why do we need to take clues from dog or crow, with every shake ?
Therefore, I now have my serious doubt to follow their senses, during the mega jot or aftershocks that might save us. As we are experiencing series of major and minor shakes after the April 25th and then may 12th mega shake, I have also paid attention towards the, sound of dog bark and crow crowing. It keep going all the time, before, during and after the shake. We can also get it like this, because they are more sensitive than us, so they might have alarmed us about the shake that is less than four magnitude hit which we normally do not feel but perhaps they do. This way, if we entirely believe their instinct and try to take the clues, then we might run after the crow or dog almost every time we hear the sound of crow or a dog.
Then the question is, how much we should listen to dog and crow when they were not helpful to warn us at the first big shake or its intensity ? If they really could alarm us about the next shake why thousands of people died ? Why no one could save themselves from the first shake and then second and then the third blow ? Should not their sense be saving humans, if they can sense about the earthquake long before humans ? I am thinking when they can not communicate to us in a clear language what is the use of all that knowledge and instinct ? Now, when I hear crow crowing my mind ask me a question, is it telling us about the another shake or its usual habit of crows crowing, which we hear all the time ? Can we run after crow all the time ?
Likewise when dog barks should we be alarmed that there will be another earthquake ? I think this knowledge of dog and birds sensing the earthquake is not good to common people, especially to those who have little knowledge about earthquake. Sadly, I have seen all this, during this mega shake time and most of them were not just educated but they were the students of MBA and BBA. They were more panicked with each sound of crow or bark.
It seems we can't refute this logic that animals have better sense than us because, they sure do, but what is the use of it, if it is not going to save one life ? We can't run after the crow fearing another disaster. Crow in its fear can fly high in the sky but however scared we are we can't fly up in the sky as our feet will be firmly fitted on ground. If animal instinct could be helpful, we don't need any help from science, human expertise and high tech instruments which can warn us about the next disaster. They sure can sense it, before us but now we know it it did not come handy before the disaster nor it could save a single life. Now, it depends on us how much we can trust their instinct and take a clue from them.
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