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The Sixth Sense

CSEF · 2003 Mammalian Biology

Nils Carlson, Matthew D. Maxson · Soquel High School, Soquel

Overview

Objectives/Goals The object of our project was to determine if animals can sense natural disasters. We believe that animals do have the ability to predict some of these events. Methods/Materials Materials List 1. 3 Jars 2. Cardboard dates to determine the 10 random dates 3. A car to get to the Stanford Library 4. Microfilm Newspaper of the San Jose Mercury News Methods Step 1. Look up 10 dates of earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.5 or greater and within 50 miles of a major metropolitan newspaper. And using 3 jars and cardboard dates, we selected 10 random months, 10 random days, and 10 random years to get our dates. Step 2. We attended the Stanford Library and looked up the dates of the earthquakes and the random dates. We then counted all the lost pet ads of cats, dogs, and others. Step 3. We made a chart of all the lost pet ads for the days and compiled our data. Conclusions/Discussion We are going to re-conduct our experiment before we arrive in Los Angeles

Summary statement

To discover if animals can detect natural disasters.

Help received

Used the microfilm library at Stanford University

Competition history

  • CSEF 2003 Mammalian Biology · Entry S1003

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