Considering that a number of earthquake predictors take odd animal behavior into account, I thought I'd post this article I found...:

Jack rabbits attack walkers in Sonoma County; man bitten, woman forced to evade jack rabbit

Published 8:10 p.m. PST Friday, March 29, 2002

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - Sonoma County musician Doug Bowes will remember this Easter season as the one where he happened upon the Easter Bunny, and it attacked him.

Bowes was walking near his home at about 11 a.m. Wednesday when the attack occurred. A small, gray jack rabbit bounded toward him from a nearby fence.

"I thought, 'Gosh, this is somebody's pet,' " Bowes said. He put his hand down in a friendly gesture and the bunny lunged and bit him.

Bowes began to walk home, nursing a sore hand with broken skin, but the rabbit followed him. A short time later, a nearby neighbor had to retreat up a hill after another aggressive jack rabbit forced her back.

Bowes had to get rabies shots and faces five additional vaccinations, though area health officials say it would be rare if the animal had rabies.

"If it were (rabid) it would make history," said David Yong, director of laboratory services for the county public health division. No rabbit has tested positive for rabies in Sonoma County in the past 16 years, Yang said.
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Also there have been more than 20 dolphins that have washed ashore in Southern California since late February. Its believed that they have died of a toxin from eating fish who have eaten diatoms - Domoic acid is produced by naturally occurring blooms of single-celled organisms of the genus Pseudonitzschia. The toxin is concentrated in filter-feeding animals, such as anchovies and sardines, which are in turn eaten by dolphins and other mammals. The toxin also causes a human illness, amnesic shellfish poisoning, which can be deadly.

The stranding is the largest in Southern California since 1994, when more than 70 dolphins washed ashore during a three-month period, said Joe Cordaro, a wildlife biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Long Beach.The cause of those deaths was never determined.

(taken from: AP News Fri Mar 22,11:33 PM ET By ANDREW BRIDGES, AP Science Writer )