{"id":4902,"date":"2004-12-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/12\/29\/2004-12-29-sixth-sense-apparently-saves-animals-in-sri-lanka\/"},"modified":"2004-12-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-29T12:00:00","slug":"2004-12-29-sixth-sense-apparently-saves-animals-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/12\/29\/2004-12-29-sixth-sense-apparently-saves-animals-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixth Sense Apparently Saves Animals in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=516&#038;u=\/ap\/20041229\/ap_on_re_as\/quake_sri_lanka_animals_1&#038;printer=1\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>YALA NATIONAL PARK, SRI LANKA, December 29, 2004: Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale animal deaths from the weekend&#8217;s massive tsunami &#8212; indicating that animals may have sensed the wave coming and fled to higher ground. An Associated Press photographer who flew over Sri Lanka&#8217;s Yala National Park in an air force helicopter saw abundant wildlife, including elephants, buffalo, deer, and not a single animal corpse. Floodwaters from the tsunami swept into the park, uprooting trees and toppling cars onto their roofs &#8212; one red car even ended up on top of a huge tree &#8212; but the animals apparently were not harmed and may have sought out high ground, said Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, whose Jetwing Eco Holidays ran a hotel in the park. &#8220;This is very interesting. I am finding bodies of humans, but I have yet to see a dead animal,&#8221; said Wijeyeratne, whose hotel in the park was totally destroyed in Sunday&#8217;s tidal surge. &#8220;Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth sense,&#8221; Wijeyeratne said. Yala, Sri Lanka&#8217;s largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200 Asian Elephants, crocodile, wild boar, water buffalo and gray langur monkeys. The park also has Asia&#8217;s highest concentration of leopards. The Yala reserve covers an area of 391 square miles, but only 56 square miles are open to tourists.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceYALA NATIONAL PARK, SRI LANKA, December 29, 2004: Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}