island of Komodo

[kcpets]

Anyone know if komodo island got hit with the Tsunami ? If so how bad ?

[JimmyDavid]

Good point.
Indonesia considers the komodo dragon a national treasure, when it should really be a world treasure. The fact that they don't let dragons to be taken out of the islands is a very bad thing. A tsunami is all it takes to destroy the total population of komodo dragons.
It's curious that some species are not allowed to be kept as pets, but it's the pet industry that could garanty the survival of certain species.

[BAZ]

I dont think Komodo would have gotten hit that bad because of the position of the islands geographically. Sumatra and Java would have absobed most of the waves. I dont think they would have gotten anything but rough seas. I have written to the head of the research team on the Islands and hopefully he will be able to get me concrete info soon.

[GreenDay]

hi i'm kris from indonesia....
no. komodo island was not hit by the tsunami....
komodo island are miles away from north sumatra and aceh where the tsunami attack.
80.000 people died because of it. and it well assumed to be increase because all the victim have not found yet.

[JimmyDavid]

This is really a tragedy. It reminds us that we don't need terrorism or wars to feel unprotected. We are all at the mercy of nature and our time can come at any second.
Last i heard there were over 100.000 dead people, now.

[kcpets]

thanks Kris for letting us all know about Komodo Island. I hope that your country recovers from these tragic events. Please keep us all posted on whats going on over there.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Weirdest thing about the whole disaster? They can't find any dead animals anywhere. Not rabbits, large mammals, snakes, anything. Lots of human fatalities, but there's like NO dead animals anywhere. Bizarre.

[Tim_Cranwill]

I've heard that as well but wasn't sure if it still held true. If so, that is spooky-strange.

[wiseman001]

I was talking to someone at work today about that storm...He was saying about the animals native to the island, they had a helicopter flyin over head... they didn't find many Dead animals at all...

................ Could this be true ? ..... Its no secret that animals can sense this sort of thing..

Maybe there is something we can learn from the Animal kingdom..

[varanus69]

I got a question here. They say they haven't found any or many dead animals but have they found any alive? When i mentioned that to my wife that was her question. The water could have easily swept alot of the animals out to sea right? Just a thought ..............

[Tim and Julie B]

I don't believe they have found many animals dead or alive. Animals have a sixth sense when it comes to mother nature. If you ever walk through a forest and cannot hear any birds calling, then there is definately large predators in the area. They flee well before our scientists are aware of any possible danger.

[marisa]

If any of you live in California you wouldn't wonder about animals ability to sense earthquakes.

Before even small quakes there dogs will bark frantically, goldfish have been known to jump out of their aquariums and so on. In fact usually after earthquakes you can think back and notice even birds go silent before hand.

They didn't find any animals because they all took off.

I hope these people are getting what they need. It's a terrible tragedy.

Marisa

[RepTylE]

It will be interesting to see ecological impact studies in the near future but of course the priority right now is dealing with the human cost of the disaster.
Marisa has a good point, no doubt that animals fled inland as far as they could go. Time will tell.
Hopefully, some study group will attempt to access the impact on the animal population in the area.

[Jeff_Favelle]

But how fast can a Retic or a Blood or a Burm flee? Why haven't there been any dead snakes turning up?

[Will]

Jeff, from what I've read regarding the wildlife(the odd piece in newspapers), the animals were leaving days in advance...