tornadic activity and animals ( reptiles )

[old guy]

in this case. While I have read about critter movement before, during and after climatic events like thunderstorms, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc., I have not read anything with animal movement with the onslaught of tornadoes. My own experience while not academic or scientific , is being in the mid-west , I have seen massive movement of reptiles mostly with other animals not far behind. I know that barometric pressure with temps are probably a major factor here. And it seems to effect animals far away from the actual tornadoes. For the second time while living in the out country I have observed this. The other day and night as a lot of people saw or heard, we had outbreaks of tornadic activity. When I left work at mid-night I saw over a dozen snakes on road and opossums, raccoons and several deer in a 14 mile stretch of highway leading back to my residence. By that time the temperature was down to the low 60ties with the super cells well out of the area.
I have witnessed animal movement with storms even finding snakes out moving about on my property but never the magnitude of tornadoes being around.
Input here as to reading about this ?
I also have a book titled " when snakes awake " ( miss leading title because it doesn't really have much about reptiles but other animals of domestic and wild ) that documents movement caused by all of the above including volcano eruptions and goes as far back to documented centuries but again doesn't have a thing about tornadic activity..........

[Cat_72]

I guess I can't say that I've observed much with reptiles in these cases, but I can tell you that my other animals, the horses in particular, have acted very strangely in a couple of instances where there have been tornadoes near here, and it went on for a good hour before the actual funnel was seen. I don't know exactly what they "sense", but there is most definitely truth to the idea that the animals know it is coming long before it ever gets here, IMO.

[old guy]

in that book was the most sensitive up to hours or even days before natural climatic events with snakes number three by moving and being erratic at that. Even chickens had forewarning going ons. LOL !

[reptilebreeder]

As I think you mentioned it probably has more to do with the overall conditions (barometrics, humidity, etc?) that are leading to the tornados, than the actual tornado itself. I know a lot of them there Alterna freaks :raspberry are into weather conditions, especially barometrics. I think I may even research that a bit more, if I'm ever able to get back out to Texas one of these days.