system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why are animals more in tune and able to sense certain natural disasters before humans? At what point in our evolution did we lose/miss out on this and why?

From a TIL post about a tsunami they were saying animals were reported moving to higher ground hours before the event. Why can animals sense disasters earlier than people?
gpt
I would take "animals were reported moving to higher ground" with a huge pinch of salt. Where's the evidence? Who saw it? If this really is a sign of an impending Tsunami then why didn't someone report it?

Any animal moving in any direction is either moving to lower ground, higher ground, or ground of the same elevation, by definition. So 33% of the animals you saw today might be described as "moving to higher ground".