Learning from animals

Our problems with predicting natural disasters and climate change could all be solved if we just paid more attention to the animals.

A bold statement but one that has been observed true multiple times.
Elephants started charging inland before the 2004 tsunami in southeast Asia; birds go quite before an earthquake happens in San Francisco; butterflies migrate patterns change as the planet warms and cools.
Every time something happens like this however, humans decided they need better technology to predict things like this, when really all they would have to do is pay attention. People who are lazy need technology. People who are wise listen to the world around them. If plants and animals are so inferior to the human race as many say, how can they have knowledge of these disasters before even our best technology?

Why not spend more effort looking and learning from the environment than destroying it in our attempt to recreate it?