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A tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean in December, 2004. It killed tens of thousands of people in Asia and East Africa. Wild animals, ___1___, seem to have escaped that terrible tsunami. This phenomenon adds weight to notions that I they possess a sixth sense for ____2____, experts said. Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean islands coast clearly ____3____ wild beasts, with no dead animals found. No elephants are dead, not ____4_____ a dead rabbit. I think animals can _____5____ disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening. H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lankas Wildlife Department, said about one month after the tsunami attack. The ____6____ washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lankas biggest wildlife _____7____ and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards. There has been a lot of ____8____ evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven, said Matthew van Lierop an animal behavior____9____ at Johannesburg Zoo. There have been no ____10____ studies because you cant really test it in a lab or field setting2, he told Reuters. Other authorities concurred with this ____11____. Wildlife seem to be able to pick up certain ____12____, especially birds there are many reports of birds detecting impending disasters, said Clive Walker, who has written several books on African wildlife. | 
