Green Options » ant farm http://greenoptions.com/tag/ant-farm Posts tagged 'ant farm' Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:51:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Turkish Man Believes His Ant Farms Can Predict Earthquakes http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/07/24/turkish-man-believes-his-ant-farms-can-predict-earthquakes/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/07/24/turkish-man-believes-his-ant-farms-can-predict-earthquakes/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:51:09 +0000 Levi Novey http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/07/24/turkish-man-believes-his-ant-farms-can-predict-earthquakes/ When you were younger, did you ever own an ant farm? I’m still begging my wife to get me a glow-in-the-dark one that we saw several years ago in a science center gift shop. Ok, begging might be a little bit of an exaggeration, but I’d still like the novelty gift.

A child views his ant farm

In any case, when we saw the ant farm it made me think fondly back on the several ant farm colonies I had as a child, and how interesting and cool the ants were to watch as they built their tunnels. I never had any idea though that ants might be able to predict earthquakes.

Now a man in Turkey, Kadir Sutcu, is using several ant colonies in his home to predict when earthquakes will occur. As the article I read claims, in early July Sutcu was successful in predicting an earthquake before its occurrence by watching the behavior of his ants. Supposedly, he even sent out thousands of emails warning people before the earthquake hit (I wonder how many people took him seriously at that time, and also how many do now).

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