Reply #24: Doesn't need to hurt them

[Az]

Animals are not constrained by our curiousity or attachment to material posessions. When they feel a change in the environment they run. Its a strong instinct. This is why it is so hard to sneek up on a critter. They are not psychic. They just react when they sense a change(with normal senses).

When we sense a barometric or atmospheric change we get curious. We wonder what was that. We stick around. If we have stuff in the area and the change is drastic enough to worry us we may start collecting our stuff. Not until we actually see the coming disaster do we start to move rapidly.