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Wisdom of the Wild: Introduction
Can Animals Predict Disaster?: Additional Web and Print Resources
Can Animals Predict Disaster?: Eyewitness Accounts: Wit Aniwat
Wit Aniwat is a mahout at his family's elephant-riding center near Phuket, Thailand. He describes the elephants' behavior prior to the tsunami.
Can Animals Predict Disaster?: Eyewitness Accounts: K. David
K. David worked as a wildlife tracker for Sri Lanka's Department of Wildlife for 30 years. He was near Yala National Park when the tsunami hit.
Can Animals Predict Disaster?: Listening to Infrasound
Humans can't hear infrasound, which scientists define as any sound pitched below 20 hertz to as low as 2 hertz. But it turns out that some animals, including elephants, hippos, giraffes, whales, and alligators, have acute infrasound hearing.
Deep Jungle: New Frontiers: Tracking Forest Elephants
Unlike their better-known cousins, the African elephants of the open savannahs, forest elephants are adapted to living in dense woodlands.

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