00:00animals may have a sixth sense and no, they don't see dead people, but it may help them sense
00:10when earthquakes will strike. An international research team placed sensors on six cows, five
00:15sheep, and two dogs on a farm in Italy in an earthquake-prone area. They studied their
00:20movement over several months and found they were unusually restless up to 20 hours before
00:26earthquakes. Animals closer to the quakes at the center started behaving unusually earlier than
00:31those that weren't. Though the team says it's still unclear how their sixth sense works, they have a few
00:37ideas. Researchers think they may be able to sense earthquakes by picking up the air's ionization
00:42caused by large rock pressures in earthquake zones with their fur. Or it's possible animals can smell
00:49gases released from quartz crystals before an earthquake. Today, predicting when and where earthquakes
00:54will happen is still a challenge. Her researchers say studying a big number of animals in different
00:59regions around the world could provide further clues. A study was published in the Ethology,
01:04International Journal of Behavioral Biology.
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