Where do all the animals go during extreme weather?

In the case of hurricanes, up into the sky.

I’m guessing they just try to run and stay alive, much like we do.

We don’t have tornadoes but we do have plenty of snow. The deer in my neighborhood hunker down under the pine trees. I’ve watched them with a thermal imager. Awesome

I intentionally leave about 6–8 pieces of 8 ft long culvert pipe with diameters ranging from 10 inches to 18 inches in the woods for critters. I spread them out so they are not next to each other like low rent housing.
Lately I’ve seen a feral cat take up residence.

Lots of them just die. It was so sad to see all of the dead herons, storks, ibises, and lizards after hurricanes :(

mooooooooooooooo

You are a nice person @LuckyGuy

@uberbatman – that was taking forever to load so I didn’t wait but I can just guess it is that Helen Hunt movie where the cow went twirling around in the tornado!

Here after cyclones there were so many dead birds but strangely I never saw dead roos, dingoes. Saw dead cows but trees fell on them. Good question, makes you wonder???

I am not an animal behaviourist so I am simply guessing. I am guessing that wild animals are conditioned to protect themselves in inclement weather. I see it in my garden on a small scale
when there are storms. Just as we are taught to run into a trench when a tornado is approaching, their instinct for survival must also inform them of what to do. The deaths may
come when they do not reach their destination on time or they cannot find appropriate cover. Animals do, however, know when natural disasters are approaching. There is a man named Jim Berklund (sp?) who predicts quakes by studying animal behaviour.