Rain animals is a special meteorological phenomenon, which is the fall from the sky in many animals, often of a single species. This atypical precipitation may or may not be accompanied by common rain. The phenomenon has occurred in many regions throughout history. There have been testimonies of the at various times and countries, which has given rise to many legends and controversies.
Most often, these "showers" are composed of fish or frogs, but there are stories that mention some species of birds. Sometimes the rain is so violent, that animals have just smashed on the floor. Sometimes the animals survive the coup, particularly fish, which suggests that the interval between his departure and return to the soil is relatively short. Some witnesses described rains of frogs, where the animals are intact after its fall. Sometimes animals fall completely frozen, or are trapped within blocks of ice; showing that before he fell, his height was very high, where the temperature was below 0 ° C.
In ancient literature there are many testimonies of animals rain or showers of various objects, some of them organic.
could be traced to ancient Egypt, if there is validity to the Egyptian papyrus Alberto Tulli (whose very existence is controversial) and it is said that strange phenomena would register with the emergence of what the UFO literature interpreted as a UFO. More particularly, there is also the decline of fish and birds of the sky. The Bible tells how Joshua and his army were aided by a shower of stones falling on the Amorite army. The Bible presents other celestial interventions such as the appearance of frogs, one of the Ten Plagues of Egypt (Exodus 8, 5, 6). In the fourth century C., the Greek author Athenaeus mentions a rain of fish which lasted three days in the region of Chaeronea, in the Peloponnese. In the first century, the writer and naturalist Pliny the Elder described the shower of pieces of flesh, blood and other animals such as wool. Finally, in the Middle Ages, the frequency of the phenomenon in certain regions has led people to believe that fish and adults born in heaven, and then fell into the sea.
Thanks to the press at the time have generated many modern testimony, witnessed by a large number of people, which increases their reliability. Here are some examples:
In 1578, large yellow mice fell on the Norwegian city of Bergen.
As a John Collinge, a rain of frogs hit the English village of Acle, Norfolk. The landlord of the place withdrew hundreds.
On July 11, 1836, a professor of Cahors sent a letter to the French Academy of Sciences, saying
This cloud thundered on the road, some sixty yards from where we were. Two gentlemen who came to Toulouse, our destiny, and who were exposed the storm, were forced to wear their coats, but the storm surprised and scared, and who were victims of a rain of toads! Sped and hastened his departure, to find the coach told us what had happened to them. Then I saw the tossing their coats in front of us, young frogs fell.
fragment of the letter M. Pontus, a professor of Cahors, addressed to M. Arago.
February 16, 1861, Singapore City suffered an earthquake, followed by three days of heavy rain. After the end of the rains, the Singaporeans were in the pools there were thousands of fish. Some of them claimed to have seen them fall from the sky, but others were more reserved in giving his testimony. When the waters receded, there were other fish in ponds that had dried up, notably in places that had experienced flooding.
Scientific American magazine recorded a report of a snake shower that reached about 45 cm) in Memphis on January 15, 1877. In the U.S., there were more than fifteen reports of rains of animals, only in the nineteenth century.
in June 1880 struck down a shower of quail on Valencia (Spain).
On September 7, 1953, thousands of frogs fell from the sky over Leicester, Massachusetts, USA.
In 1968, Brazilian newspapers reported a flurry of flesh and blood, over a relatively large area. Canarios
fell dead in the city of St. Mary's City, Maryland (United States) in January 1969. According to the Washington Post on January 26 that year, the flight of the canaries stopped suddenly, as if there was an explosion that nobody saw or heard.
In 1978, rained crabs in New South Wales, Australia.
In 2002, it rained fish in Greece. The newspaper Le Monde wrote:
Athens is not always beautiful, and even less so are the mountains of northern Greece. But storms have sometimes taste of help to smile and dream. On Tuesday, hundreds of small fish have rained in the village of Korona, in the high mountains
Pierre Georges. "Poissons Volente 'article in Le Monde, December 13, 2002
In 2007, small spiders rained in Salta, Argentina.
In 2007, small frogs rained in El Rebolledo (Alicante, Spain).
On August 1, 2008, in Choco (Colombia) rained blood, but this fact is attributed to several causes, including animal rain.
In 2008, fish and frogs rained on Benigánim Taperal (Spain).
A tornado may be responsible for capturing animals and drop them at great distances from their place of origin.
Contrary to most of his contemporary colleagues, the French physicist André-Marie Ampère felt that the testimony of rains of animals were real. Ampère attempted to explain the rain of frogs with a hypothesis that was later accepted and refined by scientists. Before the Society of Natural Sciences, Ampère argued that in certain times of the toads and frogs roam the countryside in large numbers, and that the action of strong winds can capture and move long distances.
More recently, he appeared scientific explanation of the phenomenon, involving the waterspouts. Indeed, the winds that swirl below the meteor are able to capture objects and animals, through a combination of depression in the whirlwind, and the force exerted by winds directed towards it.
Consequently, these downpours, or even tornadoes, transported the animals to relatively large heights, must travel long distances. The winds can pick up the animals on a relatively large area, and drop in mass and concentrate on points located. More specifically, some tornadoes and waterspouts may dry out completely a pond, to drop further from the water and wildlife contained in it, as "rain animals."
This hypothesis appears confirmed by its animal nature of these rains: small and light, usually arising from the aquatic environment such as frogs and fish. It is also reassuring that, often, the rain of animals is preceded by a storm. However, there are some details that could not be explained. For example, sometimes the animals are still alive even after the fall, and some of them in perfect condition. Another aspect is that normally each animal rain occurs with one species at a time, rarely mixing and other plants including algae. As noted by William R. Corliss:
... the transport mechanism, whatever its nature, prefer to select a single species of fish or frog, or that animal that is on the menu
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This apparent anomaly could be explained in the case of birds, if the tornado passing through a particular flock is in full flight, especially in EPO 
cas migration. The image at right shows a specific example where a group of bats is a victim of a storm. The image was captured by a weather radar from the National Weather Service in Del Rio, Texas, and illustrates how you can predict the phenomenon in some cases. In the image, bats are in the red zone, which corresponds to the winds away from the radar (the radar is the white dot in the lower right corner) and enter the mesocyclone associated with a tornado (in green). Such events often occur with birds inevitably.
In some cases, different causes have been argued for some alleged rains of fish. For example, in the case of rain fish in Singapore in 1861, the French naturalist Francis de Laporte de Castelnau explains that the shower took place during a cat-fish migration and that these animals are able to crawl on the ground, to go from one pool to another, such as eels, which can travel several kilometers in wet meadows, or pike to be played in the flooded fields. It also explains the fact of having seen the fish on the floor immediately after the rain is not just a coincidence because these animals normally move on the ground wet with dew, or after a shower or a flood.
long time, science has discarded many of the explanations that are offered, for considering them exaggerated, unreliable or not verifiable. In 1859, a witness to a rain of fish in the village of Mountain Ash (Wales) sent a specimen to London Zoo. JE Gray, director of the British Museum, said that "the light of the facts, it is likely that it is a joke: one of the employees of Mr. Nixon has been cast over a bucket full of fish, and the latter thought he fell from the sky. "
course, the rains of animals were without scientific explanation for a long time, while evolving scenarios ranging from logical attempts to explain the phenomenon, to the absurd. In the fourth century C., the Greek philosopher Theophrastus denied the existence of showers of frogs, explaining simply that toads do not fall during the rain, but the latter makes them leave the land. In the sixteenth century, Reginald Scot ventured to give a hypothesis. According to him, "it is true that some creatures are spontaneously generated, and do not need parents. For example [...] these frogs coming out of nowhere. They were transported by rain. These creatures are born of showers ...». In the nineteenth century, it was thought that evaporation of water frog eggs led to the clouds, where they hatch and fell to earth in a shower.
Among the non-scientific explanations of the phenomenon, paranormal interpretations are claiming extraterrestrial interventions. In fact, there are also authors who describe these visitors by collecting large numbers of animals as ballast, and then dropping them before leaving our planet. Rains of blood and flesh would be linked to a selection made by visitors, to lighten their stores.
supernatural explanations also exist, which may be religious in nature. Depending on the type of object or animal that falls to earth, the phenomenon is perceived either as a punishment, as in the case of the stones that fell on the Amorite army in the Old Testament, or as a providential sign of divine goodness, when it comes to food animals.
also in the same line of speculation, it suggests the existence of anomalies in the space-time that would bring animals from other dimensions. These explanations often use teleportation, to explain why animals are where they should not be. Charles Hoy Fort journalist has developed these ideas. According to Fort, in the past there was a force capable of transporting objects instantly, which is only evident in disordered actions, and rains of fish. Fort Another suggestion is based on the alleged existence of a 'superior sea of \u200b\u200bSargasso, "a kind of deposit sucking and spitting celestial terrestrial objects.
"It's raining cats and dogs"
This English expression which means literally "raining cats and dogs', and is equivalent to the English 'pour' reference is perhaps the best known of the phenomenon found in everyday language. This expression is first written in the book A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, Jonathan Swift, 1731. However, the origin of the term is uncertain. One speculation is that it is an archaic French catadoupe distortion, which means 'shower' or 'cascade'. Another speculation says that in the Middle Ages, heavy rains cleaned the roofs of dead dogs and cats, making them fall in the streets.
There are expressions in other languages \u200b\u200bin the same way they refer to heavy animals, but If no evidence exists that these statements are based on reality. In German, for example, can be said that "rain puppies [dog]" (It regnet junge Hunde) and in Polish "raining frogs" (Leje zabami).
more complete documentation on the rains of animals, is due to the American journalist Charles Hoy Fort, who devoted his life to the unexplained phenomena. The New York Public Library holds more than sixty thousand cards written by Fort, which largely relates to cases of animal rain. Fortean Society, created in his honor, continues the search for strange and unexplained phenomena.
Paul Thomas Anderson, American film director and supporter of Fort, based some of the sequences of the film Magnolia in the events reported by Fort, including a rain of frogs. In Le Dernier Combat, the first feature by France's Luc Besson, the presence of a rain of fish, as well as in the films The Avengers, Jeremiah Chechik, adapted from the television series and Wonderful World of Joshua Goldin.
Been In the book, the writer Colette describes a warm rain of frogs:
The last cloud, and I was taking a bath seat, Antoine layer soaked and full of water, warm water, 18 or 20 degrees . And when Antoine turned what layer we? Tiny frogs live, at least thirty brought by air, by a quirk of the south by a hot whirlwind, one of those tornadoes which includes base and raise a hundred miles a mixture of sand, grains, insects ... In
Captain Panfilo, the writer Alexandre Dumas, a rain of frogs appear in the newspapers, which causes a frenzy at the home of one of the characters:
... remembered reading, a few days before, signed by Valenciennes, that this city was the scene of a singular phenomenon: a rain of frogs had fallen accompanied by thunder and lightning, in such quantities that the city streets and roofs of houses had been covered. Immediately afterward, the sky, which was two hours before a gray ash was now blue indigo. The Constitutionnel subscriber looked into the air, and seeing the sky black as ink and Tom in the garden, unable to realize the way he had entered, he began to believe that a phenomenon similar to that of Valenciennes was about to repeat itself, with the only difference being that instead of rain of frogs, bears going to rain. One was no more dangerous than the other, the hail was bigger and more dangerous
Alexandre Dumas: Captain Panfilo Chapter VIII30
In 2002, in his novel Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami uses the Japanese the phenomenon of rain of fish within a fictional context, mixing the Bildungsroman with the supernatural.
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