Veterinarian Dr. Michael Fox has heard many stories of dogs who, from a distance, sensed that something had happened to their owner. Dr. Fox believes that animals have a connection with the "empatosphere" - the area where thoughts and feelings exist physically.
Animals are able to sense events from a distance or find their way to the places they need (for example, the location of the owner), even if they have never been there before. This is possible thanks to their keen empathy, says Dr. Fox.
Animal abilities “work more accurately than our abilities buried under the weight of knowledge,” writes Michael Haver, co-author of The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotions, explaining Dr. Fox's theory.
1. Animals go a long way to get to the shelter
Dr. Fox gives an example on his website: “Two animals demonstrated the limitless possibilities of the empatosphere at Nilgiri in South India, where an animal shelter is located,” he writes.
“Somehow they knew the animal shelter was a safe place to get help. How else to explain the behavior of two animals that have traveled many kilometers to come to a place where they have never been? One of them was a dog that hobbled after being hit by a car. His back was broken and his testicles were damaged. He walked over a mile to get to the orphanage. Another animal is a buffalo, which the shelter workers found waiting at the gate in the morning. Her condition was quickly diagnosed and cured - her infected vagina was teeming with carnivorous larvae.
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2. Dogs feel the death of the owner
In a 2012 interview on AnimalWiseRadio, he gave a typical example: an old man dies in a hospital, and his dog starts howling at home at 10:00 am. The phone rings at 11:00 am with the message that the person has died. The dog, in all likelihood, had a presentiment of his death.
“When you have collected enough real-life cases, statistics can be compiled, and the statistics are such that many dogs have this connection to the empathosphere,” says Dr. Fox.
3. Elephants grieve for the animal protector
Radio host Mike Fry told a story that was reported by many media outlets. Lawrence Anthony created a private elephant sanctuary in Africa. Two days after he died at the age of 61, a herd of elephants came to his home, they walked more than 12 miles. Prior to that, no elephants had been seen near his house for over a year. They stayed there for two nights.
“They grieved for him,” says Fry. "They knew he was dead." Anthony's widow was moved by this event. She took this as a final tribute to his husband from the animals he helped.
4. Strange incidents after the death of a pet
In The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotions, Haver told the story of his recently deceased cat.
The cat named Dalton the Great, as told by its owner Haver, was hit by a car, and the person who found him could not inform the owner about it, because before that the cat had lost its collar.
A few days after Haver found out what happened to his cat, his 2-year-old daughter Gabrielle asked the question, "Where is Dalton?"
As he began to explain, there was a distinct knock on the door.
“The strangest thing is that the knock came from a position lower than the usual knocking of a person, even a very short one,” writes Haver. “My wife opened the door, but there was no one there. Not a child, not an adult, not a lost teenager, not an animal. At first we thought it might be a bird, but then we rejected the idea because it wasn’t like a beak. In any case, no bird knocked on our door. Nothing like this has ever happened to me and my wife Bonnie."
5. Animals can make predictions
Octopus Paul from the Sea Life Center in Oberhausen gained popularity in 2010 for "predicting" the winners of the FIFA World Cup matches. Paul was offered two food troughs, each decorated with a team flag.
Of course, the octopus simply had to choose from two options for eight matches, writes the Wall Street Journal blog article. The accuracy of the predictions is amazing, but there is nothing incredible about it.
Fortunetellers with parrots are common in the Little India area of Singapore. In the photo, the fortuneteller M. Muniyappan, along with his parrot Mani. Mani predicted the results of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Parrot Mani from Singapore also became famous for predicting during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He correctly selected the winners of all matches of the quarterfinals, but was mistaken in predicting the winner, choosing the Netherlands over Spain. In some traditional Asian divination, the use of parrots is common.
Around the world, many animals have become famous as fortunetellers, including Leon the porcupine, Jimmy the guinea pig, and Harry the Australian crocodile.