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Can animals sense when an earthquake is about to happen?

  • Written by Anne Quain, Lecturer, University of Sydney
Can animals sense when an earthquake is about to happen?He Gong/Unsplash, CC BY-SA

Within minutes of Melbourne being rattled by yesterday’s earthquake, my Victorian friends reported changes in the behaviour of their animals.

One friend wrote on social media that her dog Harvey stood in the hallway howling for five full minutes before the earth moved. A colleague reported his television reception...

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