How do animals react during a total solar eclipse? Scientists plan to find out in April

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do we not already know?!

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  • ItsAFake@lemmus.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because everyone was too busy looking at the solar eclipse!

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  • FlowVoid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because the vast majority of animals who see the upcoming eclipse will never have seen one before.

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    • Fal@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How is that an answer to the question?

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  • communist@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is actually extremely difficult to study

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=idlq8zCrUkY

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And how do they react during Total Eclipse of the Heart?

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  • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    like hurrah toredo

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  While there are many individual sightings of critters behaving bizarrely during historic eclipses, only in recent years have scientists started to rigorously study the altered behaviors of wild, domestic and zoo animals.

  Seven years ago, Galapagos tortoises at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina, “that generally do absolutely nothing all day … during the peak of the eclipse, they all started breeding,” said Hartstone-Rose.

  In April, Hartstone-Rose’s team plans to study similar species in Texas to see if the behaviors they witnessed before in South Carolina point to larger patterns.

  This year’s full solar eclipse in North America crisscrosses a different route than in 2017 and occurs in a different season, giving researchers and citizen scientists opportunities to observe new habits.

  “During a solar eclipse, there’s a conflict between their internal rhythms and external environment,” said University of Alberta’s Olav Rueppell, adding that bees rely on polarized light from the sun to navigate.

  As for indoor pets, they may react as much to what their owners are doing – whether they’re excited or nonchalant about the eclipse – as to any changes in the sky, said University of Arkansas animal researcher Raffaela Lesch.

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• athos77@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There's also Eclipse Soundscapes, a citizen-science project by NASA.

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