Animals knew there would be a Tsunami in 2004. Well maybe that’s a bit of a stretch, they might not have known it would be a Tsunami but they knew something was coming and that they needed to get to higher ground.

We’re the only ones who didn’t.

I discovered recently that at the national parks in Sri lanka they didn’t find lots of dead animals after the Tsunami as you would have been thought. All the animals (even the elephants, and think about how slowly they walk) made it out the way. They had all gone and found higher ground and waited it out.

It’s so incredible that they all could have known to do that and with enough time for even the elephants to make it, but they did.

We think of ourselves as the smartest animals on earth but it seems we may be a little mistaken. We didn’t know and we never usually do when it comes to natural disasters.

If all other animals know we must have at some point have been able to tell that sort of thing too.

Clearly though we stopped listening. And we’ve probably now evolved so far from that we couldn’t listen properly again if we tried.

It’s such shame.

Think what else we may have been able to know if only we’d carried on caring enough to listen.