Because Animals Know…
You may be aware that Fisherman’s Wharf, in San Francisco, is famous for having sea lions on it (I didn’t). You may have been aware that about 1500 of these animals have made their home their for a period of time approaching twenty years.
This colony of animals — all 4.5 million kilos of ‘em — turned up shortly after the 1989 earthquake in the San Francisco area, and since november they have been gradually drifting off, until now there are only about 20 of them left.
Obviously some people will have drawn the inference that bloody hell! there’s going to be a big earthquake! and obviously these animals can tell and have quite sensibly pissed off to avoid being involved in said natural disaster. Other people are more sceptical, with the BBC describing this notion as ‘outlandish’.
But really, unless anyone has actually asked the sea lions, or knows and understands something about their behaviour, and whether these animals are able to sense certain signals given off before a major event, it’s difficult to know whether they’ve gone off following a food source (as some chap from the Marine Mammal Center suggests), whether they’ve gone off because there’s going to be a ruddy great earthquake, or…
Part of me would quite like the earthquake prediction to be true (or at least the parts of it which would thumb the nose at the people who had been dismissing the idea of the sea lions being able to sense something we can’t, whilst hopefully avoiding the parts of the earthquake which tend to be associated with death and destruction). On this side of the argument, I was telling BTP only yesterday about the San Andreas Fault and that it was quite conceivable there could be a fairly big earthquake on it, even in the next year or so, and you know what I’m like for accidentally predicting natural disasters. But I have my own personal theory…
I think these intelligent marine mammals have finely tuned senses able to detect future events which are outside the normal scope of their experience; I think they’ve spent sufficient time interacting with humans to pick up a rudimentary grasp of our language (“say cheese!” and so on), which has led them, from overhearing conversations, to understand what sort of events might occur in this area. And that, finally, despite there not seeming to be any public research which relates to this in any way whatsoever, sea lions don’t like you to make too much of a fuss.
And I think the sea lions could sense what was coming, and have buggered off…
Officials hope the departure is only temporary – as a 20th anniversary party had been planned for 15 January. The director of public relations for Pier 39, Sue Muzzin, told The Times newspaper: “With animals, you never know. If they are not back on January 15, we’ll party with the ones who are here.” BBC News
So, if the animals immediately start drifting back after the 15th of January (maybe a week or two later to make sure all the cake has gone), you’ll know I was right…
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