1. In the tsunami 150,000 people died. How many animals died?
2. How many people and animals died in Yala National Park?
3. What do people say about the elephants of Yala National Park?
4. What did the dogs in Galle do?
Answers
1) Not many animals died in the tsunami that killed about 150,000 people. Sixty visitors were washed away from the Patanangala beach inside the park but only two water buffaloes died at the Yala National Park.
2) Sixty visitors and only two water buffaloes died at the Yala National Park.
3) people say that the elephants ran from the beach an hour before the tsunami hit the coast
4) The dogs at Galle refused to go out for their daily run on the beach.
Answer:
1: two animal died (two water buffaloes)
2: Sixty visitors were washed away from the Patanangala beach inside the park but only two water buffaloes died at the Yala National Park.
3:The people at the Yala National Park had seen three elephants running away from the Patanangala beach about an hour before the tsunami hit.
4:On the day of the tsunami the two dogs at Galle who were usually excited to go out for their daily run on the beach refused to go out.