Swedish cows make lousy earthquake detectors- Official!

According to The Local (an English language Swedish news website) data gathered during a recent Swedish earthquake has determined that that cows in Skåne are frankly rubbish at detecting earthquakes. They were so bad they hardly even noticed the shaking beneath their feet, thus disappointing researchers who suspected the animals had an innate ability to detect natural disasters.

Researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) had hoped that sensors placed on a number of cows from a herd (totalling eight cows) in southern Sweden would reveal interesting clues about how the animals behaved before and during the quake. “Very little, almost nothing, points to the cows having any advance awareness of or feeling the effects of the earthquake,” said the SLU’s Anders Herlin . “One can probably say that, as a species, cows are not the world’s most earthquake-sensitive animals,”

Ah well perhaps chickens will do better....