Well, I'm not sure about saying generally that they can sense natural disasters, but they are certainly more stunned to the natural world than most humans. Many mammals, birds, reptiles, & fish can sense slight and not so slight changes in barometric pressure for example, which explains both examples above. Many of my snakes, and one of my cats know when a storm is coming, (this cat is afraid of thunder, I'm sure the others know, they just don't care), which is helpful this time of year here. There is a fish commonly called a dojo loach, also called a weather loach, that the chinese have kept for some hundreds of years, to alert people of incoming storms.
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