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Dogs can detect earthquakes before humans (and why that's amazing)

Dogs can detect earthquakes before humans (and why that's amazing)

Update: 2024-04-28
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Can dogs really predict earthquakes? Yes. But how? Can they smell something we can't detect? Hear tremors seismometers are missing? Or are they collaborating with... cows? This episode sounds ridiculous, but the science of dogs secret sixth sense is fascinating.

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Yamauchi, H., Uchiyama, H., Ohtani, N., & Ohta, M. (2014). Unusual animal behavior preceding the 2011 earthquake off the pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan: A way to predict the approach of large earthquakes. Animals, 4(2), 131-145.

Wikelski, M., Mueller, U., Scocco, P., Catorci, A., Desinov, L. V., Belyaev, M. Y., ... & Martin Mai, P. (2020). Potential short‐term earthquake forecasting by farm animal monitoring. Ethology, 126(9), 931-941.

Coren, S. (2006). Can dogs predict earthquakes? A possible auditory answer. In Paper delivered at the Psychonomic Society meetings, Houston, Texas, November 2006.

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Dogs can detect earthquakes before humans (and why that's amazing)

Dogs can detect earthquakes before humans (and why that's amazing)