Scientists have studied how zoo animals reacted during a total solar eclipse in South Carolina in 2017. They found that animals displayed behaviors connected with dusk, such as Galapagos tortoises breeding and giraffes galloping. Researchers are now planning to study the impact of this year's eclipse on animals in Texas.
People will be looking up at the sky when the eclipse happens, but how will animals react in the total solar eclipse where day becomes night? Back in 2017 for the last total solar eclipse , scientists studied how zoo animals reacted in South Carolina where the skies went dark. They discovered Galapagos tortoises started breeding during the peak, giraffes started to gallop, and other animals displayed behaviors connected with dusk.
When FOX 29’s Drew Anderson was in Tennessee for the full eclipse, he recalled the birds stopped singing when it got dark. Back in South Carolina, flamingos at the zoo gathered around their chicks during the eclipse as if trying to protect them. During this year’s eclipse, researchers are going to study how the eclipse impacts animals in Texas to see if the behaviors they witnessed before in South Carolina point to larger patterns
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