One of the best ways to learn how to survive, particularly when confronted with unexpected and sudden catastrophes like a tsunami, earthquake, the fall of an Assyrian God from the sky like Anu, or whatever you might imagine is to see and interpret the actions of wild animals.

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There is some talk regarding the perception of very low frequency waves by animals as a natural alarm in the case of earth and seaquakes; apparently we don´t sense those signals and thus see every living thing going away as we foolishly wait for any disaster to come.

The spectrum of frequencies heard by some animals is indeed different than ours, but a hypothesis such as the one you are suggesting has not been - to my knowledge - confirmed.

Animals do show collective behaviour in a variety of cases: a forest fire is an example. Forest animals escape in panic and en masse when something like that happens, but this can be assigned to the survival instinct characteristic of each species, and not to some sort of animal kingdo-wide interconnection or 911-like channel.

This kind of trait has been traced to ancient times: in the United States, fossil remains of a vast number of Triceratops have been found suggesting that a herd of these truck-size dinosaurs was crossing a river in panic and many died, probably due to a flood and the stampede.

Fossil records are also good at teaching something about survival. The reason is that evolution is a struggle between extinction and survival, and it is the story of successful adaptation of species.

While indeed, we as individuals do not and cannot adapt like evolving species - i.e. we cannot develop wings to fly like angels in one day, one month or a generation -, the lessons from the history of our planet are nevertheless valuable: the case of the , another earlier but much more devastating disaster at the , and others, even serve to show what kind of dangers we may face as a species and as individuals too.

You will find a lot about fossils of animals .

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