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"The strange thing is, we have not recorded any dead animals. No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. I think animals can sense disaster. They know when things are happening in nature," he said.
Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, who runs a hotel in the park, said, "I am finding bodies of humans, but I have yet to see a dead animal."
Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200 Asian elephants, crocodiles, wild boars, water buffaloes and gray langur monkeys. The park also has Asia's highest concentration of leopards. The Yala reserve covers 391 square miles, but only 56 square miles are open to tourists.
Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and author of "The Sense of Being Stared At," a book about unexplained human and animal abilities, said animals "seem to sense when a disaster or catastrophe is about to occur."
"The most striking examples concern earthquakes," he said.
In some instances, cats have been said to go into hiding up to 12 hours before an earthquake, while dogs would bark "frantically" shortly before it struck, he said.