Research Program / Claims / biological-integrity-7

Animals migrate to seek more favorable conditions and can perceive imminent natural disasters and leave the area.

动物会迁徙以寻求更有利条件，并能觉察即将来临的自然灾害而离开该地区。

Concept biological integrity · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · testable prediction · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ fundable

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Seth sources (book §session)

mass-events §805

Adjudicating experiment

Combine animal tracking data such as Movebank, remote sensing, weather radar, infrasound, and earthquake catalogs; prospectively deploy about 1000–3000 animals at 20–50 sites for 3–5 consecutive years, extending if earthquakes are insufficient. Model storms and earthquakes separately; prespecify abnormal migration, warning windows, magnitude and distance thresholds, and test hit rate, false alarm rate, and incremental value over environmental sensors on independent sites and future events, controlling for foreshocks, light, season, barometric pressure, and human activity.

Suggested paper title

Prospective Forecasting of Storms and Earthquakes from Animal Movement and Environmental Sensor Networks

What it would overturn

If animal signals consistently improve earthquake prediction in independent prospective data, this would revise the empirical judgment that current animal behavioral anomaly indicators lack reliable incremental value for short-term earthquake prediction.

Candidate labs / funders

Martin Wikelski — Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space（ICARUS）; Heiko Woith — GFZ地震前兆与动物行为研究; Henry M. Streby — 鸟类迁移与极端天气研究

Specificity of Seth's formulation

Migration to seek favorable conditions is not novel; pre-disaster departure is testable, but disaster type, lead time, distance, or sensory channel are not specified, so superior predictive ability beyond ordinary senses cannot be claimed.

Note

Regarding supplementary question 5: GPS and remote-sensing designs can test migration and prediction validity, but cannot directly measure biological integrity perception; [Wikelski research direction](https://www.ab.mpg.de/wikelski) is directly relevant to this data approach.

Evidence (3, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Tornadic storm avoidance behavior in breeding songbirds — Henry M. Streby, Gunnar R. Kramer, Sean M. Peterson, Justin A. Lehman, David A. Buehler, David E. Andersen (2015), Current Biology
追踪到鸣禽在强风暴抵达前离开繁殖地；研究提出次声线索解释，但小样本个案不能证明普遍灾害预测能力。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.079)
Potential short-term earthquake forecasting by farm animal monitoring — Martin Wikelski 等 (2020), Ethology
报告农场动物震前活动异常，但结果依赖观察场景及分析方法，不能等同于已验证的前瞻预测工具。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13078)
Review: Can Animals Predict Earthquakes? — Heiko Woith, Gesa M. Petersen, Sebastian Hainzl, Torsten Dahm (2018), Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
评审指出许多震前动物异常报告缺少连续基线、可靠时间序列和可检验规则，不能建立可靠预测能力。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170313)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim biological-integrity-7, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/biological-integrity-7