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3/lR I I u_ l I /“i t t w i 'i a cajj|W WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1976 Researcher says animal behavior nay aid in early earthquake detection taneouj duct! at Colk H; p ress Catfish jumping, cattle lowing and ■ m C(«i !rf: logs barking might appear a pretty •Jett)s lastoral scene to a midwestemer, ■ hardci * but to a resident of California, Japan ir any of the global areas affected by ■arthquakes, it may be the prelude ^ o destruction. ...DeiS I Many incidents of agitated ani- Inals preceding earthquakes come to er 'D® , <Mdem researchers from Japanese McG, lt ! literature and legend as well as re- -mn h ports from the 1890s and 1900s in the iheim r area around San Francisco. John M. Logan, working in ear- am-4.jlhquake research at the Center for Mn« Tectonophysics at Texas A&M Uni- -Qtion vlrsity, recently organized and 1 s - jhaircd a California conference to ' determine the validity of this kind of j n ^ earthquake prediction, rtionl J )ennii "All this reinforcement suggests that something is there,” he added. "A document distributed to the populace by the government of the People’s Republic of China tells what to watch for: when cattle, sheep or horses refuse to get into the corral; when rats run out from their hiding place; when chickens fly up to the trees and pigs break out from their pens; when ducks refuse to go to the water and dogs bark for no obvious reason; when snakes come out from their winter hibernation; when pi geons are frightened and will not re turn to their nests; when rabbits with their ears standing jump up or crash into things; and when fish jump out of the water as if frightened, ear thquakes may be imminent. "Reports on animal behavior are similar from such diverse areas as China, Japan, the U. S., Italy and Guatamala, and such common ob servations come from people that could not possibly have had contacts with each other or have read reports from other areas, ’ he noted. “This provides credibility to their reports and presents a large body' of evidence supporting the contention that animals do sense something be fore earthquakes,” Logan explained. “The second point to be made is that the response of the biological com munity' is not restricted to a simple species or genus, but spans a very wide spectrum of biological forms. “This suggests that there is either more than one stimulus or a major universal one that must be detecta ble by a great variety of organisms,” he said. Magazine entries due Feb. 1; ^publication set for April T AXr\/f »-»Fr-ic .1 * ... c |Texas A&M students with entries 1 add f or the MSC Arts Committee’s liter- ire "> ary magazine, “Moebius,” should to Rt polish up their works over the Hnester break in time for the Feb. 1, 1977 deadline. tors jwK:Moebius editor Susie Turner yes- Iterday said the magazine should be t° iKiblished sometime in April, and ‘go Stiiwill sell for about 75 cents. Turner s nanitj said she expects the magazine to be ■comptl about 100 pages long. ■ The committee met last week to Ichoose section editors for Moebius, which is the first literary magazine to be published by a University organi zation since "The Commentator” in ;1954. Editors for the first edition of Moebius include: idn’tbB Marty Wade — Poetiy Board. ■omeciH Bob Shield — Prose Board. 50 pres® Rhonda Kay Reger — Business • Unsi Bbard. <ers. 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