Animals to be used as quake sensors

The natural behaviour of animals is being used to help predict earthquakes in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong Province.

Guangzhou zoo, which has more than 5,000 animals, recently set up observation points near the dwelling places of birds, peacocks, frogs, snakes, turtles, deer, and squirrels to monitor and record their daily behavior for the city's seismology office.

"We have found many animals behave oddly before an earthquake," said experts with the seismology office of the Guangzhou government.