Can Animals Predict Earthquakes? Italian Farm Acts as a Lab to Find Out<br />A German scientist, Mr. Wikelski tagged several animals on a farm in Pieve Torina in the Marches region of central Italy in October to monitor their behavior, hoping<br />that if it changed in some consistent way before an earthquake, it could be used as an early warning system and potentially save thousands of lives.<br />The hope is that once the animal data is compared with the earthquake data from the area — using earthquakes<br />of a magnitude of 4 as a cutoff — it will show distinctive behavior before, during and after an earthquake.<br />Wikelski said that Even if we can show that this is something that is being sensed by these animals,<br />You could see their livelihood was gone," he said,<br />but the family was "still very nice." Mr. Wikelski tagged a number of animals on the farm — a rabbit, sheep, cows, turkeys, chickens and dogs — with small but sophisticated sensors.<br />Wikelski said that We are really excited because this is the first time we could tag animals before, during and after a major earthquake series,<br />Wikelski said that If it’s just one animal alone from one farm, we wouldn’t be able to see a signal,<br />but if you take it all together, the synergies, the synthesis of these sensing systems, that’s really what seems to give the signal,
