What animals know that we don't

What's going on with the animals, I want to know. First there was the news that the tsunami seemed to claim virtually no non-human animal victims, leading scientists to speculate anew about animals' intuition or sixth sense. Now we have word of tigers in the Simi Valley (Moorpark) Target parking lot; chimps in Caliente, California; and most fittingly, coyotes in D.C. Are we changing our dystopic proof text from 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale to Planet of the Apes or something? What's up with all this?