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This film explores this previously unexplained phenomenon through first-hand accounts from wildlife specialists and interviews with experts who are beginning to understand what animal lovers always suspected: our animal friends possess a special sense, well beyond human ability, that serves as an efficient early warning system in times of danger.
Can this ability of animals be explained in a manner that stands up to scientific analysis? Can it be used to save human lives in the future? This intriguing film takes the evidence a step further, by addressing similar animal behaviour in other parts of the world such as the Swiss Alps, China and Japan.
The global view takes us on a journey from Thailand, the site of the 2004 Tsunami disaster, to China and the research of Kelvin Wang. He tells the story of the 1975 Haicheng earthquake which was the only major earthquake successfully predicted in history by the observation of animals. In a NASA lab in California, Friedemann Freund explains the energy unleashed when tectonic plates collide and explains how the energy might reach elephants long before an earthquake.
The film presents the views of the "animal listeners" against skeptics who believe this work belongs in the realm of fairy tales. The challenge is to discover where the truth lies.