Fw: Disaster mystery: No dead animals

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Thought this was interesting enough to send along to the group.

Margaret,

mom to the monsters

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> Disaster mystery:

> No dead animals

> Sri Lankan wildlife officials stunned by lack of carcasses

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> Posted: December 29, 2004

> 3:50 a.m. Eastern

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> © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

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> As the human death toll from Sunday's earthquake and subsequent tsunami

> continues to skyrocket in Asia, a mystery is unfolding in Sri Lanka.

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> Somehow, the animals survived the disaster.

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> According to reports out of Colombo, Sri Lankan wildlife officials are

said

> to be stunned.

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> " The strange thing is we haven't recorded any dead animals, " H.D.

Ratnayake,

> deputy director of the national Wildlife Department, told Reuters. " No

> elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. "

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> " I think animals can sense disaster, " he added. " They have a sixth sense.

> They know when things are happening. "

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> The sentiment was echoed by Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, whose Jetwing Eco

> Holidays runs a hotel in the Yala National Park, the country's largest

> wildlife reserve where hundreds of wild elephants dwell along with some

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> other species.

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> " This is very interesting. I am finding bodies of humans, but I have yet

to

> see a dead animal,'' he told the Associated Press.

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> Floodwaters reportedly rushed up to two miles inland at the park, where 41

> human bodies have been recovered so far, including 13 foreigners,

according

> to Lanka Business Online.

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> Wildlife officers reportedly found a 13-year-old boy yesterday morning,

the

> only survivor of the tsunami at the park.

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> Wildlife Conservation Director General Dayananda Kariyawasam told the

paper

> except for dead fish, no carcasses of animals have been found.

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> The human death toll in Sri Lanka exceeds 21,000.

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