Myths and Truths About Animals that Anticipate Earthquakes and Eruptions: “His Sixth Sense Exists, but It Is Not a Metaphysical Thing”

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On the slopes of Etna, Martin Wikelski (Instituto Max Plank) wanted to meet foxes and deer. As a teacher of animal migrations, his intention was to put sensors on them to study their movements through the Sicilian mountain. But his research took a turn when a colleague of his, italo-speaking, began to chat with some shepherds of Randazzo. “Leave the foxes, put apparatuses on the goats”, came to tell one of the countrymen. In the pastoral culture…