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But could dogs be able to detect natural disasters like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions? That’s what scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour in Konstanz, Germany are trying ...
A team of scientists have begun exploring whether dogs, goats and other farmyard animals are able to predict natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. They have enrolled ...
A drawing by Konrad Lorenz showing facial expressions of a dog - a communication behavior. X-axis is aggression, y-axis is fear. Dog behavior is the internally coordinated responses of individuals or groups of domestic dogs to internal and external stimuli. [1] It has been shaped by millennia of contact with humans and their lifestyles.
Geologist Russell Robinson has described "earthquake weather" as one of the most common pseudoscientific methods of predicting earthquakes. [2] Aristotle proposed in the 4th century BC that earthquakes were caused by winds trapped in caves. Small tremors were thought to have been caused by air pushing on the cavern roofs, and large ones by the ...
Earthquake environmental effects are divided into two main types: Coseismic surface faulting induced by the 1915 Fucino, Central Italy, earthquake. Primary effects: which are the surface expression of the seismogenic source (e.g., surface faulting), normally observed for crustal earthquakes above a given magnitude threshold (typically M w =5.5 ...
Further, the more the dog rehearses the behavior, the more stress levels increase, which may cause an escalation to more intense behaviors (snapping, biting), and the behavior may generalize to ...
A new theory suggests that heavy snowfall could be a factor in triggering swarms of earthquakes — evidence that what’s happening on and above the Earth’s surface may play a role in events ...
In connection with earthquakes, syzygy refers to the idea that the combined tidal effects of the sun and moon – either directly as earth tides in the crust itself, or indirectly by hydrostatic loading due to ocean tides [2] – should be able to trigger earthquakes in rock that is already stressed to the point of fracturing, and therefore a ...