Shenzhen Wildlife Park has recently joined efforts with the municipal seismic bureau to establish five seismological observation stations in the park.

Every day the park's staff and animal keepers observe and record unusual actions of animals and report to the seismic bureau for analysis.

Meanwhile, the seismic bureau occasionally sends experts to the park to train and teach the animal keepers how to observe and record the behavior of tigers, lions, wolves, snakes, crocodiles, swans, cranes, turkeys, fishes and zebras in the park.

Animals are said to behave irregularly before seismic activities take place, and some believe observing the creatures can help predict earthquakes.

(China Daily May 9, 2006)