necoandjeff wrote:

> "Dave" <dgreco@bg9.so-net.ne.jp> wrote in message
> news:newscache$sm4i2i$vnb$1@news01a.so-net.ne.jp...
> 
>>"Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:2o9p3kF74pg2U8@uni-berlin.de...
>>
>>>Dave wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>     I went to a festival tonight in Nara and noticed on my way that
>>>>there were swarms of birds gathered throught the trees flying
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> restlessly
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>>>>in several directions. Then my girlfriend reminded me that before the
>>>>Kobe earthquake people noticed the same thing. Just wondering if anyone
>>>>noticed any strange behaviour or knows anything else about this
>>>>phenomenon. Needless to say, she freaked me out!!!
>>>
>>>Animals are observed acting restlessly every day of the year. People
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> only
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>>>assign importance to such things after an event such as an earthquake,
>>>hurricane, or alien invasion.
>>>
>>>- Kevin
>>
>>I dont recall seeing birds flying in swarms like that at night. Their
>>behaviour was strange enough for me to have noticed and she was thinking
> 
> the
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>>same thing also when she saw it. didn't know the association between
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> animal
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>>behaviour and earthquakes until my girlfriend mentioned it. I guess we'll
>>just have to see if anything happens!
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> 
> Well, I'm convinced. You and your girlfriend are obviously really on to
> something here. How cool. Your very own early earthquake detector. Can you
> teach us how to read the birds too so that we'll all be safe from
> earthquakes?
> 
> Jeff

They're rank amateurs compared to John Travolta in "Phenomenon". He
didn't need no stinkin' birds! He could just wave his hands over the
ground and sense the earthquake before dutifully ringing up the local
university.

- Kevin