From spiders that dismantle their own webs to bats taking flight mid-afternoon, a solar eclipse can prompt a plethora of bizarre animal behavior.
will darken skies to a dim twilight for 5 minutes across a wide swath of North America. Most necks will be craned toward the celestial spectacle, but if you look around you may witness something just as captivating: a bunch of baffled creatures trying to make sense of the unexpected gloom.
“All the animals and the birds became frightened," d'Arezzo wrote, "and the wild beasts could be captured with ease.” They wound up with nearly 500 observations, which revealed a stunning range of abnormal behavior. Crickets “set up a lively chirping just as they do at nightfall,” while mosquitoes “appeared and pestered us terribly.” Gulls began “to repair to their night roosting grounds,” and sheep “came into their evening pens, bleating.”Intriguingly, in places where the eclipse was just shy of complete , animals typically didn’t react at all.
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