Guest_ikonboard Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka -- Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale animal deaths from the weekend's massive tsunami - indicating that animals may have sensed the wave coming and fled to higher ground. An Associated Press photographer who flew over Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in an air force helicopter saw abundant wildlife, including elephants, buffalo, deer, and not a single animal corpse. Floodwaters from the tsunami swept into the park, uprooting trees and toppling cars onto their roofs -- one red car even ended up on top of a huge tree -- but the animals apparently were not harmed and may have sought out high ground, said Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, whose Jetwing Eco Holidays ran a hotel in the park. "This is very interesting. I am finding bodies of humans, but I have yet to see a dead animal," said Wijeyeratne, whose hotel in the park was totally destroyed in Sunday's tidal surge. "Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth sense," Wijeyeratne said. Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200 Asian Elephants, crocodile, wild boar, water buffalo and gray langur monkeys. The park also has Asia's highest concentration of leopards. The Yala reserve covers an area of 391 square miles, but only 56 square miles are open to tourists. The human death toll in Sri Lanka surpassed 21,000. Forty foreigners were among 200 people in Yala who were killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottdog Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 Don't know what it was but, something told this old dog to stay away from Sri Lanka this year. And I thought it was just fear of foreign countries. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badcad Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 I guess we'll just have to keep hoping for a few dozen more tsunami's back to back and there wont be anything left but the animals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 I guess we'll just have to keep hoping for a few dozen more tsunami's back to back and there wont be anything left but the animals! That's what we need in Afghanistan and Iraq a big fucking sand tsunami. Kill everything but the camels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badcad Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I guess we'll just have to keep hoping for a few dozen more tsunami's back to back and there wont be anything left but the animals! That's what we need in Afghanistan and Iraq a big fucking sand tsunami. Kill everything but the camels. You are correct sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottdog Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 .......you think someone tested an underwater nuclear device in the Indian Ocean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leelynn Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 something to think about scottdog ??? now days nothing is impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yakuza Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Very unfortunate about all the deaths over there, but did you see the one picture of the boat and the 20' wave in front of it. I was just waiting for one guy to pop up and start surfing it. Now that would have been news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeanGene Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I guess we'll just have to keep hoping for a few dozen more tsunami's back to back and there wont be anything left but the animals! That's what we need in Afghanistan and Iraq a big fucking sand tsunami. Kill everything but the camels. You know why they call the camel the "Ship of the Desert"? Beacause they're full of Iraqi seamen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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