Did animals' 'sixth sense' save them from tsunami?
Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a "sixth sense" for disasters, experts said on Thursday.
Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no dead animals found.
Tsunami kills thousands of people in Sri Lanka but few animals, wildlife experts say
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 Sunday's tsunami swept into the park, uprooting trees and toppling cars onto their roofs -- one car even ended up on top of a huge tree -- but the animals apparently were not harmed.
Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, covers 1000 square km. 200 people were killed at Yala when waves sent floodwater surging 3.5km inland.
[The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean last week which is expected to have killed more than 100,000 people. ]
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