article_snippet: For centuries there have been accounts of animals behaving bizarrely before earthquakes.
article_snippet: Now, for the first time, scientists have filmed the behaviour of wild animals prior to a quake and believe scientists study could help improve short-term seismic forecasting.
article_snippet: For the first time, scientists have filmed the behaviour of wild animals in Peru prior to a quake and believe scientists could help improve short-term seismic forecasting.
article_snippet: As far as we know, this is the first time that motion triggered cameras have documented this phenomenon prior to an earthquake,Dr Rachel Grant of Anglia Ruskin University said.
article_snippet: With their acute ability to sense their environment, animals can help us understand subtle changes that occur before major earthquakes,' said Professor Friedemann Freund of the Seti Institute.
article_snippet: With their acute ability to sense their environment, animals can help us understand subtle changes that occur before major earthquakes.
article_snippet: Dr Grant said that that next step in the research is to find a reproducible way of monitoring behavioural changes before an earthquake, because ‘
article_snippet: Dr Grant intends to investigate wither zooplankton – tiny animals that live in water – could be used as a biological indicator for seismic activity.
article_snippet: we hope we work will stimulate further research into this area, which has the potential to help with short-term seismic risk forecasting,’ Dr Grant added.
article_snippet: As well as predicting earthquakes, animals could help repair the damage animals cause too.
highlights_snippet: Scientists filmed the behaviour of animals in Peru before an earthquake .
  