00:04animals may have a sixth sense and no they don't see dead people but it may help them sense when
00:10earthquakes will strike an international research team placed sensors on six cows five sheep and two
00:16dogs on a farm in italy in an earthquake prone area they studied their movement over several
00:21months and found they were unusually restless up to 20 hours before earthquakes animals closer to
00:28the quakes at the center started behaving unusually earlier than those that weren't though the team says
00:33it's still unclear how their sixth sense works they have a few ideas researchers think they may be able
00:39to sense earthquakes by picking up the air's ionization caused by large rock pressures in earthquake zones
00:46with their fur or it's possible animals can smell gases released from quartz crystals before an
00:52earthquake today predicting when and where earthquakes will happen is still a challenge
00:56the researchers say studying a big number of animals in different regions around the world
01:00could provide further clues a study was published in the ethology international journal of behavioral biology
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