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Unit One Section A A Sense of Doom: Animal Instinct for Disaster Part IV Key to Exercises II. 1. It refers to animals’ ability in detecting hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions long before the earth starts shaking. 2. It’s animals’ sensory physiology — super-sensitive to sound, temperature, touch, vibration, chemical activity and magnetic fields — that gives them the advantage. 3. Because they are more sensitive to low-frequency vibrations and it’s sensitivity that humans don’t have. 4. They lay their trunk on the ground as if to feel it. 5. They can figure out what direction the stimulus is coming from, how strong it is, and what evasive action to take. 6. Because they are sensitive to sudden electromagnetic changes, such as those that precede an earthquake or a thunderstorm. 7. They may have been spared because they noticed unusual behavioral changes in the birds, dolphins and lizards. 8. A lot of snakes came out of hibernation a week before the quake. 9. According to Ruth Buskirk, one reason may be “background noise”. (The animals can sense anything, including very minor changes that happen before earthquakes, but there’s so much background noise during an earthquake that it’s unclear what stimuli the animals are reacting to.) 10. While he thinks that animals may possibly have the capacity to sense vibrations more than humans do, he does not think it necessarily means that animals have an ability to recognize there is an earthquake or tsunami threatening and know which way to run. III. 1. instinct 2. organ 3. dolphin 4. abrupt 5. naked 6. nerve 7. pioneers 8. gulf 9. sensory 10. magnetic IV. 1. Tropical 2. coincide 3. survival 4. trigger 5. bolt 6. head start 7. evolution 8. impetus 9. have something to do with 10. minute 11. took evasive action 12. spared 13. pick up on V. 1. with 2. for 3. on 4. back 5. with 6. away 7. on 8. on 9. with 10. in VI. 1. gas 2. flu 3. demos 4. exam 5. fridge 6. dorms 7. copters 8. ads 9. burge