Weather Sense of Animals
T is no news to farmers and other countyy dwellers that animals have an abnorinal weather sense. The mysterious sense they appear to have of changes approaching is said to be due to the sudden variations that result from atmospheric disturbances. Under normal conditions, a human being sustains an atmospheric pressure of approximately fourteen tons, and here and there, some are found who react to this pressure, any sudden change causing thein to become restless or to lose appetite. Far more animals are so affected, because they are not constantly sheltered under roofs. They are consequently more sensitive to air pressure _ and develop an acute sixth sense of approaching changes, It is not uncommon for fowls, pigs and other. domesticated animals to manifest evidence , of this "weather sense," many farmers know ing that when pigs begin lining their sleeping quarters with straw in the winter-time, that. a storm, is brewing.
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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 45, 23 May 1930, Page 38
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154Weather Sense of Animals Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 45, 23 May 1930, Page 38
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