The original post: /r/askscience by /u/Environmental-Cold24 on 2024-12-20 09:13:21.

I was trying to search on reddit the answer to this question, assuming the question has been asked before. And I was surprised to read that many answered the question by saying that there was no scientific evidence, that animals always show irratic behavior with the slightest disturbance in their proximity, that animals would only be alerted due to P-waves at most a few minutes to an hour earlier than humans.

I found that highly weird, since there seems to be plenty of evidence at least very indicative of animals having advanced ‘knowledge’ of natural events like earthquakes many hours before it happens, in some cases even days.

See this article below for example:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220211-the-animals-that-predict-disasters

So why do animals know and humans don’t? [or do we?]