Preservation in a Tsunami

The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics at Loyola University

BBC reports that there have been no recorded animal deaths due to the Tsunami:

Debbie Marter, who works on a wild tiger conservation programme on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, one of the worst-hit areas in Sunday's disaster, said she was not surprised to hear there were no dead animals.

Wild animals in particular are extremely sensitive...They've got extremely good hearing and they will probably have heard this flood coming in the distance.

Debbie Marter
Conservationist

"Wild animals in particular are extremely sensitive," she said.

"They've got extremely good hearing and they will probably have heard this flood coming in the distance.

Labels: BBC, conservation, disaster, tsunami, wild animals

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