China uses chickens, fish, toads to predict earthquakes

Nanjing city government (China) is conducting a program to nurture and use chickens, fish and toads to predict earthquakes.

China uses animals to predict earthquakes

The Seismological Bureau of the Nanjing Municipal Government (Jiangsu Province) is in the process of converting 7 farms into an earthquake forecast center , the AFP date of 6.7 retrieves information from China Daily (China). The farmers on these farms are responsible for reporting to the Earthquake Bureau about the 'behavior' of the earthquake twice daily.

The earthquake in Yunnan province (China) in 2014 left at least 400 people dead and over 1,800 injured - (Photo: Reuters)

Many types of creatures behave abnormally when an earthquake is imminent, like chickens (flying up trees), fish (swimming, jumping off the water) and toads (moving in flocks) .

Nanjing city government is expected to use 7 more farms to be the center of earthquake forecasting. Farms must be able to raise more than three new species to meet the requirement of becoming a forecasting center.

In 2014, the Nanchang city government also announced the launch of a program to use dogs to predict earthquakes.

China often suffers from many earthquakes, with hundreds of thousands of people killed in previous earthquakes. Last week, an earthquake also occurred in Xinjiang Autonomous Region , in which three people were killed, according to AFP.