| Dec. 30th, 2004 @ 03:58 am Tsunamis |
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This sucks, but you know, I can't blame Earth for getting pissed. I would kill before I would let myself get killed, and so I don't blame her. Too many people.. time to clean 'em out...just like in "The Day After Tomorrow" I suppose. (Yeah, I know not enough people in Asia have been killed. I expect the Earth to do more lovely things, though. :p)
I might donate money to help, but, I don't have any, so, eh. There isn't a lot I can do. I would pray but I think this is perhaps what Earth needed to continue existing. I don't doubt that eventually the same thing will happen to the USA. I think it's important that the Earth stays here, and it's more important than we are, or any of our petty agendas. The Earth is what's important, and if we have to die, so be it. :p Yes, I will say that as the Earth drowns or kills or mutilates me. I don't care.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can'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 is we haven't recorded any dead animals," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of the national Wildlife Department, told Reuters Wednesday.
"No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit," he added. "I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening."
At least 40 tourists, including nine Japanese, were drowned.
The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean Sunday, 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."
This is cool, though.. I am happy for the animals that made it...I like animals more than most people. Why? Probably because a lot of people have been asswipes to me. Animals haven't been nearly so arseholey. (Okay, so ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) minionjoe has a point - animals would eat other animals plus they don't have city streets to try to get through - but I still believe animal instincts are much better than ours.)
Experts: Tsunami Kills Few Animals
Wed Dec 29, 6:18 AM ET
By GEMUNU AMARASINGHE, Associated Press Writer
YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka - Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale animal deaths from the weekend's massive tsunami indicating that animals may have sensed the wave coming and fled to higher ground.
An Associated Press photographer who flew over Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in an air force helicopter saw abundant wildlife, including elephants, buffalo, deer, and not a single animal corpse.
Floodwaters from the tsunami swept into the park, uprooting trees and toppling cars onto their roofs one red car even ended up on top of a huge tree but the animals apparently were not harmed and may have sought out high ground, said Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, whose Jetwing Eco Holidays ran a hotel in the park.
"This is very interesting. I am finding bodies of humans, but I have yet to see a dead animal," said Wijeyeratne, whose hotel in the park was totally destroyed in Sunday's tidal surge.
"Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth sense," Wijeyeratne said.
Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200 Asian Elephants, crocodile, wild boar, water buffalo and gray langur monkeys. The park also has Asia's highest concentration of leopards. The Yala reserve covers an area of 391 square miles, but only 56 square miles are open to tourists.
The human death toll in Sri Lanka surpassed 21,000. Forty foreigners were among 200 people in Yala who were killed." |
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