Do you think some animals know more than we give them credit for?

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I have often wondered this. In 2008, we had an earthquake in the area of southern IL. I was living in. Shortly before it happened, my Corgi girl, who always slept as if she was drugged and never woke up in the night, woke up and jumped around, barked, pawed at the floor, and did everything she could to wake me up. I thought she was sick, so I got up. She ran into the kitchen; I was right behind her. Then the earthquake hit, and that short, pudgy dog, who never jumped on anything in her life, vaulted from the floor into my arms, completely panicked. She somehow had to have known the earthquake was going to happen. At the time, I was fostering some cockatiels and some extremely noisy parrots, but they never made any noise at night...but right before the house shook, they set up a caterwauling that would wake the dead! They knew, too. I have lived in my present home since 2013. We have 2 small bodies of water, called lakes but that's stretching it as they are small. However, we have a huge geese population. They are just part of our world here. Lately, we are finding they are acting out of character for themselves--you never, ever usually see just ONE goose. You either see 2, or 2 with babies to watch, or a ton of geese all over the place, but...never, ever just one goose. The past few weeks, this has changed. We are finding geese, just one lonely goose here and there, all alone. It's just after 1 AM here. There is one goose, all alone, sitting on the side of the street right in front of my house. He/she (can't tell, it's dark) set off the door camera so I knew it was there. It's been out there since about 10 PM. I went out to see if the goose was hurt--nope. Goose took a walk down the sidewalk, but came back to it's preferred spot in front of my place when I went back to the porch. This has been happening a lot lately, close to a lot of the homes, just one goose. They sort of act like they are out for an afternoon stroll, but they are alone. This is just extremely out of character for them. Do the geese know something we don't? I can't help it, I know it sounds silly, but I still wonder. Since I don't understand geese language and they don't understand English, I guess I won't ever know. I tried to take a picture of the goose just sitting there, but it's super dark and it didn't turn out well. Picture from Pixabay