How Zoo Animals Predicted The DC Earthquake: "Moments before a rare, 5.8-magnitude shook Washington, D.C., the National Zoo said Wednesday many of its animals showed signs of distress -- some letting out cries, others fleeing to higher ground and some huddling together.
In the seconds before the quake struck Tuesday afternoon, several gorillas and orangutans abandoned their food and climbed to the top of a tree-like structure in the National Zoo, part of the Smithsonian Institution.
One orangutan named Iris began "belch vocalizing," which the zoo described as "an unhappy/upset noise normally reserved for extreme irritation," just before the tremor and continued the call after"
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