Researchers will be standing by to observe how animals’ routines at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas are disrupted when day transforms into dusk. Previous observations during an eclipse in a South Carolina zoo revealed surprising animal behaviors.
Scientists will stand by to track how tortoises, giraffes and apes at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas react when day transforms into dusk. Researchers will be standing by to observe how animals’ routines at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas are disrupted when. They previously detected other strange animal behavior s in 2017 at a South Carolina zoo that was in the path of total darkness.
“To our astonishment, most of the animals did surprising things,” said Adam Hartstone-Rose, a North Carolina State University researcher who led the observations. 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. The cause of the behavior is still unclear. A mated pair of Siamangs, gibbons that usually call to each other in the morning, sang unusual tunes during the afternoon eclipse. A few male giraffes began to gallop in “apparent anxiety
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