Extreme weather and natural disasters place high demands on the animal world to be able to adapt in order to survive.
And here are many creative solutions.
Fire ants can, for example, build living rafts to cope with a flood and float around for days before they reach land and start building a new nest.
Leaves the eggs in hot ashes
On the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea, the Tongastorfoot hen has learned to use the heat from the volcanoes to take care of its eggs.
The eggs are buried in the hot ashes, and the hen then leaves the eggs to be taken care of by the volcano.
The parents never meet the cubs, but they hatch fully feathered and ready to fly.
But as a natural disaster approaches, there are also animals that can sense in different ways what is going on.
The goats on the slopes of Mount Etna can, with their behavior, sound the alarm before an eruption occurs.
Want to investigate more animals
Dr. Martin Wikelski has studied the goats to understand their behavior and what it is they react to before an outbreak and now wants to try to see if you can find the same behavior in other animals.
- The next step will be to go to different places in the world and see which animals are known to be able to show when disasters are approaching.
Then we get to investigate whether those animals are as good as the goats, says Martin Wikelski in The World of Science - The Survivor of Disasters.
See more animals that can predict disasters in the clip above.
Watch the entire "Survivors of Disasters" in the World of Science on Monday 20:00 on SVT2 or already now on SVT Play.