island of Komodo

[RepTylE]

I see your point and noted it in your post but have no more clue than you do Jeff. I do hope that some real answers come to light, it could really show that animals sense these events much earlier than we suspect.

[clint545]

The most I've seen about any animals, is survivers' tales of having to swim through water infested with crocs feeding on the dead.
In the same article in todays Toronto Sun, a guy climbed a tree and had a large snake follow him up. They both spent the night clinging to the tree.

[Scales Zoo]

The human tragedy story is terrible, but the animal things are amazing. Garter snakes come out of dens in the dead of winter before earthquakes. They may freeze and die, but it's interesting anyways.

I too wonder where the animals are. With reptiles, they could be underground, dead or alive - but you'd think they'd find deer and pigs and things - which apparently they are not.

The whole thing also makes me feel pretty safe about living in Saskatchewan. I never thought people were meant to inhabit coastal lines in large numbers.

Ryan

[reptile boi]

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[Jeff_Favelle]

Yeah, its definitely food for thought. The world is an amazing and scary place sometimes.

[GreenDay]

hi...i'm kris. i'm from indonesia.

i think the reason that they can't find dead animal there bacause it WAS a city near by the sea.
let say if new york attack by it you wont find any dead pig, or cow there right?

but they do find some dead pets like dog,cats esp chicken.
aceh and north sumatra dont have may reptile species.
the snake species such as python curtus take place in the other side of the island, and they live in the woods too..


its a real tragic..there's a little island called 'congh na' that have 7000 people population, ony 100 survive.others dead.
the island itself practically gone.out of the map.

there is a chance that they all swept to the sea.the island i mention before, half the bodies found in the sea.




there's no tears left to cry....

[RepTylE]

Thanks for the info, GreenDay. It is a terrible disaster, I hope that the affected areas get the help that they need in the aftermath.

[Rebecca]

It's so sad about it all, all the horrible stories. My heart goes out to all that have lived through it and now have to deal with the after math first hand. It's all just so sad.

[BOAS_N_PYTHONS]

EVERYONE:

I found this very informative site, helps explain some things people don' t catch on the news to often.





Pictures from this site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_In...ean_earthquake

On a personal note.

Both myself and Analisa are saddened from this disaster and hope the survivors and there families all the best to regroup and regain their lives again.

Tony Pharosx

[reptiguy123]

I feel sorry for the people that died and their families. I'm just glad that the tsunami didn't kit komodo. The first thing that came to mind when I heard that there was a tsunami in indonesia was the death of komodo dragons.

[BOAS_N_PYTHONS]

EVERYONE:

Was doing a bit more reading on this disaster.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6777595/...week/?GT1=6065

Today' s numbers.



Tony Pharosx

[sidewinder]

I saw on the news that a day or two before the tsunami struck the elephants wre acting freaky and many headed for higher ground, when they came back they were actually pulling bodies out of the water like they were trying to save them. Strange huh?