Experts: Tsunami Kills Few Animals
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Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale animal deaths from the weekend's massive tsunami &#151; indicating that animals may have sensed the wave coming and fled to higher ground.
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Up to 80 pilot whales and bottle nose dolphins died after a mass stranding on King Island off Tasmania, Australia. The number of dead mammals is lower than that in earlier
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Help finally came from  the sky on Sunday for Indonesian villages in an area washed  flat by the tsunami a week ago, but it grew clearer no amount  of aid could stop more loss of life throughout the disaster  zone.
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Thousands of bodies of tsunami victims are in Buddhist temples across southern Thailand. For many days before their graves were dug, they lay on the temples' concrete floors in 90-degree heat, which accelerated decomposition and complicated efforts to identify them. The scientists are relying on dental records and DNA to help their cause.
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No wild animals were found dead along the Sri Lankan coastline, adding credence to the belief that beasts have a sixth sense that warns them of impending disasters.
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Counting the dead from this week's tsunamis in South Asia is a logistical nightmare, as relief officials contend with casualties spread across 11 countries, including many remote islands and villages whose exact populations were never officially tallied. Thousands of bodies are probably lost at sea, making them impossible to count, and relief groups say the government of at least one ...
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Denver: The high death toll in Asia caused by a massive tsunami might have been reduced had India and Sri Lanka been part of an international warning system designed to warn coastal communities about deadly waves, scientists say.
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The catastrophic death toll in Asia caused by a massive tsunami might have been reduced had India and Sri Lanka been part of an international warning system designed to warn coastal
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Children may make up a third of those killed in the Asian tsunami disaster, with many more at risk from disease.
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The fact that the tsunami happened at the peak of tourist season could deter others from coming in the future. Other countries weren&#39;t hit as hard.
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The human impact of the tsunami disaster in sound and pictures.
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The catastrophic death toll in Asia caused by a massive tsunami might have been reduced had India and Sri Lanka been part of an international warning system designed to warn coastal communities about potentially deadly waves, scientists say.
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Health experts say no serious disease outbreaks have been seen after the tsunami, but warn it is too soon to say they will not occur.
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A statistical look at the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster:
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It now seems clear that nearly 27,000 people have died in the tsunami waves that hit coastlines in South and South East Asia on Sunday morning.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The tsunamis last week probably killed more people in the southernmost area of Burma than were reported dead by the country's ruling military junta, but the region has not been independently surveyed because of tightly restricted access, specialists say.