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The elephants knew
I was in BKK a couple of days after the tsunami and I read this amazing story in the Bangkok Post. Apparently there's an elephant farm (or maybe it's an elephant tourist attraction) somewhere on Phuket and a couple of hours before the wave hit, all the elphants started trumpeting. The handlers had never heard them make a sound quite like it - one of them said it sounded like they were crying. And they kept nudging the handlers, trying to push them in the direction that was farthest from the sea.
It was the same at a buffalo farm on Phuket. The buffalo were all really jumpy and they herded themselves onto the highest ground away from the sea.
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