I Was Shocked To Learn How Animals React to Solar Eclipses
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0:00 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
0:40 How will animals react though?
1:30 Study from 1935 - anecdotal evidence and science
3:10 More science in the last few decades - Jane Goodall
3:50 1991 study - lizards
4:05 Birds in China
4:25 Spiders and their web
4:55 2020 study makes first connections
5:35 3 types of behavior
6:15 Tortoises were super weird
7:20 More weird examples
8:00 Potential explanations
9:25 New projects are seeking help!
10:30 Why this matters especially for birds
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One year, during a partial eclipse, I watched a squirrel on a tree branch just sat there and watched the eclips with me. It sat motionless staring into the distance from high up a tall tree. A shared moment, I thought.
A great memory 👍
So u spent that time watching the squirrel instead of the eclipse 😂 joking joking
Did he wear sunglasses?
It was a moment to remember for both f you. A squirrel would never sit motionless in a tree if it weren't for the bonding.
I had multiple squirrels living in the tree right in front of my porch for years. I watched them get their food and bring it to the edge of the creek. Sit there and just look at the view. It was pretty cool. They like to eat with a view like we do.
When I am walking around my house at night and the power suddenly goes out I tend to exhibit behaviors like confusion, physical stumbling, anxiety...
Abduction
And mating rituals
@@katharina... Stumbling and falling into holes in the dark X-)
Darn it, now I have that turtle picture from the video stuck in my head 🤣🤣
@@axle.student 😂😂😂
Back in '94(?) I had a yard full of clover and beekeepers lived across the street. When the eclipse happened, all the bees chilled out and landed (they use the sun to navigate). I sat down in the field and pet the bees. They were too freaked out by the eclipse to be too bothered by me, they crawled around on me and really seemed quite friendly. They were just honeybees, so they weren't prone to sting much anyway. Good times.
Little honey bumbles!
Yaaas
I'm gonna be exploding into a million droplets of awareness all at once wake up people
Ohhh, they sting and attack and chase badly, dear. And they kill regularly. You just got lucky.
@@thefashiongoddesschannel8099 Well, I've gotten "lucky" many time since, so I must just be a lucky guy. They've been my bee-buddies ever since. As long as you don't threaten them, it's all good. Do make sure you know the difference between honeybees and ground hornets before you try making friends.
I'm 63. When I was a tween I witnessed a partial eclipse. One thing that struck me was how quiet it got.
I was sitting under a tree in a lightly wooded area. It was sunny without shadows.
Suddenly the light began to dim, then became dappled, then it was twilight and the temperature dropped. The birds stopped singing and the squirrels stopped playing or making noise. Eventually it reversed itself and everything was back to sunlight.
It was fascinating and kind of eerie but wonderful.
There was a total eclipse here in Brighton UK in 1999 (just checked, and it was on my birthday! Don't remember that bit), and I went to an urban park to watch, and yes, everything seemed to become very still and quiet.
But did you look down at the shadows? Due to some optical effect, under the trees the light was in little half-moon shapes - looked quite weird.
@@loopernoodling I don't remember that. I'm going to look for that this year. I am in the 80% zone April 8.
Are you sure you just didn't go to sleep and wake up?
I noticed the eerie silence during the last one
Why? @@raylopez99
The horses think its night time - I remember them all calmly walking back to the stables, then a few minutes later the sun came out again and they all went crazy... Watching the flower petals close and reopen again was beautiful , it was so quick.. A memory that will always stay with me.
Cool.
I saw a 6+ min total solar eclipse in a jungle in Guatemala years ago, close to high noon. Birds and monkeys went nuts. I didn't even think to look around at what the other wildlife was doing.
This is probably well known, not sure, but my guess is, the duration of a solar eclipse depends how close the moon is to earth at that point.
I imagine it like that one bird in the simpsons light polution episode, that digs into the ground.
Awesome sounds like a life time experience 😎
Those tortoises have an excellent SHTF response.
THE END IS HERE... LET'S FUCK. 😂
@Kalorag lol I just said the same thing 😂
Shit hits the fan?
@@Shagula420Yep.
Now look up WROL.
12:16 As soon as Anton commented about the tortoise comments, I got a great laugh. He knew after he talked about it, he knows his comment section too well.
I was up at 8 thousand feet on a volcano in Hawaii for the 1991 total eclipse , you could see the shadow coming then going .. It was amazing as everything around us turned translucent blue , I turned round to look down on Kailua Kona and there was 10's of thousands of flash bulbs going off as people tried to take photos with point and shoot cameras , I'll never forget that..
Now that sounds cool af
sounds amazing I wish i could have seen it!
I watched the 2017 eclipse form a mountaintop, can confirm it’s amazing to see the moon’s shadow move along the landscape
Damn & I thought you were going to say the blue was from the bioluminescence of the plants and creatures in the surrounding water.
Why would anybody use a flash to take a picture of the sun ?
Those spiders were packing up their bugout bag.
😂😂😂
Their bugin bag
My first thought was pulling it down in case of stray animals taking it and it's web for a ride or the eclipse wind.
I think probably used their heavy thunderstorm behavior.
Planning to become a bugout bug
When we had a total eclipse the ducks and chickens behaved like the night was coming and the dogs became excited due to our excitement and it was enough for one to start howling that every dog in proximity joined in.
And then you got really drunk.
The dogs might have thought that it had suddenly become dinner time.
my grandpa told me that when there was an eclipse in the 60-s in the countryside where he lived, all the dogs started howling, and the chickens ran to the coup to sleep
Barking dogs are annoying
And then YOU started howling?
Tortoise in general: ...
Tortoise during Solar Eclipse: "It is time!"
Tortoise after the Solar Ecplise: "I don't know what gotten into me, and frankly - I'm disgusted with myself."
Tortoise in general: ... ... ... bites your finger
I witnessed 23's eclipse in Brazil. Beautifully dreadful. I was in a beach with my wife, over some sand dunes, watching as the sun blacked out. No sound except the waves. No birds, no other animals in sight.
Immediatly I felt it was like witnessing the last gasps of a dying world. Immensely beautiful. Happened just before my birthday, truly a most unique experience I hold dear to my heart and soul.
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing that
During the recent blood moon eclipse at the moment of totality dozens of coyotes started howling in the forest. I never would have believed such an anecdote!
Wow, what an amazing thing to witness. I remember also howling … from bad stomach cramps! 😫😆
I witnessed the 1991 eclipse on the Island of Hawaii. We camped at the old Kona airport and many Mynah birds nest in those trees. The eclipse was early in the morning, so the Mynahs woke up, made a lot of noise, and flew out for their day. Several minutes later you could see the shadow moving toward us and all the Mynah's flew back to the trees and made a lot of noise (as they do at night). 6 and a half minutes later they started making their morning noise and left the trees again. It was a very interesting thing to watch!
bro, like bots in a videogame
Birds singing before solar eclipse:”Because I’m happy!”
Birds singing during the solar eclipse: “It’s the end of the world as we know it!”
🤣🤣
I saw a Total Sun Eclipse in Brazil. I was in a farm, the chicken went to sleep, but the cows really got upset about It. It all went back to normal a few minutes later.
Did the Chupricabras come out to feed?
Cows are heavily religious. Prolly for the father dragon was eating the son
I charted a fishing boat from Brighton Marina in 1999, and sailed out to totality. During the eclipse, roughly 50 miles out, the seagulls went crazy and tried to land in the boat. When the eclipse ended, the seagulls flew off!
I was also in Brighton but in my garden near the railway station. It was really strange when the gulls went quiet.
My take-away is that you can't use a solar eclipse to distract a bear, as you run away.
❤
I'm guessing honey badger don't care either.
😂
I don't have to run faster than the bear, I just have to run faster than you. 😅
Yeah, thanks. I learned that one the hard way😂
If it gets dark it makes it harder to spot predators.
This is the good point
@@nightshadegatito for predators hu3
I was going to say that.
The anxiety or fear part for many animals during the solar eclipse makes total sense and there's nothing strange about it. The night is usually where herbivores and similar mammals (that are used to being preyed upon) sleep and is therefore precisely the most vulnerable time for them. Many predators are more nocturnal than diurnal.
The "strange" behavior of giraffes, baboons and everything else mentioned by Anton is probably an act to ward off possible predators and warn family members away from them.
lol not if you own a predator.
Which is probably why the grizzlies dgaf
The way Anton described the chimps is definitely similarly accurate to humans and made me laugh too hard 😂
Yea evil lucien is a lie tho
During the 2017 eclipse I was struck my the perfect segue of cicada noise, to cricket noise and back to cicada noise. Seemed almost like the sounds were "dimmed" like with a volume slider 🤯
yo theres two cicada cycles coming out too in this area and its a rare event for this many to come out at once so this could be interesting this eclipse if they coincide and react
@@gagelabarber3224 That would be interesting, not sure if cicada broods appear this early in the year however.
Well...we exist within a simulation so it checks ✅ out
@@CB-ke7eqend April beginning of may
After witnessing the North American eclipse in 2017, as I began driving back to Chicago from Missouri, when I got on the highway I thought, "Wow, this Missouri highway is lit up very brightly this evening, I did not realize that lights along a highway could light it up so brightly at nighttime". And then it hit me: It was 2:00pm in the afternoon and it was a cloudless day--it is the sun lighting up the highway and not artificial streetlights! My body's very bio-chemistry had been altered so much by the eclipse artificially inducing "nighttime" for only three minutes that my psychology was now convinced that the sun had gone down and it was actually nighttime!
After the eclipse, I’d like to see a follow-up video, to see what behaviors are observed.
The US just had one last year that went from Alaska to New Mexico or maybe Texas again. These might be observations from that event.
@@boa1793I vaguely recall that. I’m in California, so won’t see the best part, but I’ll be checking it out anyway
I just saw the one in Texas. And while we were sitting waiting… it was about 30 minutes from totality… 3 grackles started chirping funny and they all sat on top of a car and looked straight up seemingly at the sun. And they kept doing it for about 5 minutes.
I once noticed a partlial eclipse. It felt like I walked into the uncanny valley. Not quite real. Still daylight. With a touch of twilight. I learned there was an eclipse afterwards. I was like: ah! that was the bewildering strangeness.
In October 2023 here in New Mexico, we had a partial solar eclipse, and our neighbor's rooster was cock-a-doodle-doo-ing, like when the sun is rising or setting.
Nice im from NM too
My roosters crow all day.
My roosters used to crow at 3:00 am. Hours before sunrise.
We saw the 2017 eclipse near farmland, and all the cows just started running together. On paper, might not sound strange, but being around farms my whole life, it was bizarre to see it, right at the time of totality.
How did Anton know? I missed everything after the turtles because I was busy thinking of turtle jokes
Mitch McConnell, he's a joke and a turtle.
Alright you got the ball.
@@kencochrane2885i was thinking of steamy turtle sex until you brought him up, now my boner is gone, why would you do this
@@kencochrane2885 more of a tortoise given his age
😂😂me too! I'm still laughing!
You're not turtley enough for the turtle club
I had two strange events, well there, but ill stick to the two. One of which was a total ecplise. That was round 2000.
The first odd thing however was in 1985 or 86. I started work at 8 am. Traveled there and it just became daylight. Some 30 minutes after i started work, it got darker and darker. A front came in with a massive layer of clouds that was SO thick, it got dark again. And with dark here, i mean as nighttime. We stepped outside to look and it was very odd. Then it started raining, HARD. It all went by in half an hour and it got to be daylight again.
The other, was as said round 2000. There was a complete solar eclipse close to where in live, in the south of NL. But 'epicentre, ie the full eclipse was in the north of france (as closest point to where i live, as its a curved trajectory). I wanted to go there, with my young children (age 6 and 7), bc its a once in a lifetime thing that it is so close you can actually go see.
We went with 3 cars. My sis with her kids and a friend of mine with a gf. It was tricky as weather would be overcast in most places and then you cant really see it. So i plotted a course to a place in Northern France somewhere that had best chance of having clear weather.
Along the way, it got cloudy and everyone started to doubt me, but we got there and the sun was out.
We pulled onto some farmland and parked there. And it started.
I made some picture, but not many, bc i wanted to soak in the experience. It was very odd and impressive. Light seemed to turn greenish yellow as the eclipse was almost complete. And then it was full, with only a tiny sliver of sunlight around the moon. It turned dark. Not as dark as night, bc the sliver still had enough energy to illuminate a bit, but lets say as dark as things will get shortly after sundown.
And then i stood there looking. And it all got quite. I hadnt really noticed before, but there had been birds singing al over and when i was complete, if was completely quiet. No bird or any animal making any sound. It was surrreal.
And since its rather short, specially the full eclipse, within a minute or so, one edge started showing more and more sunlight FAST. Not long after that birds started singing again and everything turned to normal.
I dont know why it is so impressive. Maybe it is humbling, bc once again, you are confronted with nature that is SO powerfull, we are nothing compared to all that might. Its a good thing to feel that and it connects you more to nature again.
Ill never forget and its one of those moments, a once in a lifetime thing. Im glad i went. And that my children could see it and experience it, bc chances are, they never will again.
On animal behavior btw; I t may very well be that animals that are hunted from the sky, react strongly to a shadow over them, ie light going all of a sudden. That is generally the shadow of a bird of pray shortly before they are hit. But many animals that are not preyed upon, will probably turn on their nightcap, turn off the tv, and go to bed.
The anxiety response is interesting. Especially the looking or pointing at the sun.
It hints at a level of understanding that animals don't normally display beyond having a night time ritual. I mean for a monkey to point at the sun tells us that not only does it understand where light comes from but that the sun going dark is a reason to panic. Like it understands that life itself is tied to that light source, and that's a bit of a mental leap for an animal.
I bet the most intelligent animals are also the ones who panic the most. All animals have seen night time, but the ones who panic are the ones contemplating life without a star. They're the ones intelligent enough to understand the concept of their own extinction.
I doubt they grasp the specific role of the sun as such. I think they simply understand on a fundamental level that their lives exist in a precious balance of harmony with nature. If something in nature that has been constant all their lives suddenly changes, like the patterns of the sun and sky, forest, populations of invading species, etc, they logically infer that a major destabilizing change is likely imminent.
You are an animal. If you notice and point at it, you can bet other species will. You aren't special. you're in the great ape family my guy.
In 1970 I was on pier 7 in Norfolk Navy yard, when the eclipse happened.
All the sea birds landed and went to sleep, it was deathly quiet. The Sun looked,
like a golden ring with a very bright jewel as it started to be covered and re-appeared.
All of the stars were very bright, the sight was overwhelming and almost spiritual.
This year my home here in Indiana
is in the path of totality, my hope is that the weather will be clear. Our small town is predicted,
to almost double in population, to around 40,000. Our HAM radio club has been drafted in case.
comms are overwhelmed. Stay safe, and if you are driving turn your headlights on early.
@ConontheBinarian I hope your trip is worth it and you don't get stuck in traffic, we all are hoping for clear sky's.
May your lightning arresters and hardware be tight and quiet. Good luck soldier.
@ConontheBinarianfrom Evansville but live in Olney IL and have the perfect view
In the absence of context imagine how strange it must look how we humans behave during eclipses.
Like primates with sunglasses.
The tortoises mating during the eclipse points towards a culture behind it. They are one of the few animals that live long enough to see multiple eclipses in their life.
Or they prefer it with the lights off.
I'm just glad I know what that "oh" face looks like. 😂
That's a good point!😲 It makes sense then that they remain calm. So I guess humans aren't the only ones who invented the quickie lol
I bet its because the tortiouses mate on the darkest nights of the year or month.
they remember the sky during dino extinction!
I remember the eclipse of 1999 when I watched a big flock of swifts returning to their nests making a hella lot of noise. When the eclipse was over they hesitantly left their nests again, much quieter now. I somehow could feel their confusion, it was a very strange experience.
During the eclipse of 2017, as it got dark, all the birds stopped chirping and everything got quiet, then the night insects began chirping as it became dark. It sounded and felt as quiet and still as the dead of night gets when outside. As the sun began to come out again, the insects faded into quiet and the birds starting singing again. The shadows made from the light coming through the leaves of the trees all made crescent shaped shadows in the ground, and everything was so still and beautiful. It was like watching sunset and sunrise in fast forward.
2017 total eclipse in the US. I went to Idaho and camped in the woods to see the eclipse. It was during the morning around 10 iirc. The birds were chirping and then as it got darker it slowly faded to quiet. Was very interesting to be in the middle of nature and Im so glad I was. All the videos of the time were people screaming their heads off.
Definitely go camping to see an eclipse. Would recommend.
Yes, this screaming annoys me too. Also the clapping afterwards. I have to try your method next time. Thanks for sharing your experience.
My parents have a small farm in the US. They have chickens, ducks, cows, cats, dogs and horses. They also have a small pond where some Canadian geese have been hanging out lately. I think I'll watch the eclipse from there and try to get something interesting for these studies! I just signed up:) thanks so much for sharing this info! I've actually wanted to be part of some kind of research for a while and this is a neat way to do it
make sure to get videos!!!
@@RoseNZieg yeah I know... that's the entire point of signing up
How do you know the geese are Canadian?
[Psst. Canada geese. Name, not nationality.]
@@snowsim welp I didn't name the motherfuckers lol
It's interesting that those who do notice, they seem to not interpret this as a cloud. They seem to get it's the sun itself that they're aware of, but not because of a cloud.
It’s always odd when all the wildlife around you goes silent as the eclipse happens. That’s what I remember the last time we had an eclipse during the middle of the day. We have a lot of bird life around us here where I live in Perth, Western Australia & it became eerily still, like the calm before the storm type of situation.
When I was young I saw a full one, I was at my grandparents's farm, all the animals had some kind of reaction, the dogs started howling, the chickens and ducks and such go to sleep, the sheep started baaing but then quiet down abruptly... it was pretty cool, kinda creepy...
The turtles seem to have the right idea. That's probably why they are carrying the whole world on their backs.
don't forget the one in the early 2000's where people got super powers.
What kind of superpowers?
@@susanlisson7066 Oh there was all kinds of things...someone who could fly, another that could manipulate time, a mind reader and a cheerleader that basically became indestructible.
Save the Cheerleader, save the World!
@@vallejomach6721 Haha nice one. Loved that show.
Anton makes some of the best possible science content on YT. Great channel!
I just joined, and I'm so happy to be a member!! 😊 I love the stars! I got to see them in the Arizona desert in all their glory! It was magnificent!!!❤❤❤
Frog: what are you doing?
Tortoise: Just a slowpoke.
I'll see myself out
I said Good Day Sir!
Duh
The butterflies stay put on the ground, at least they did during partial eclipse. I got a lot of nice pictures with a group of them just sitting there with the partial eclipse shadows in the background.
If you don't want to be told lies or guesses just ask Anton. Honest honest man!
My mother and her brothers witnessed a total eclipse in either Western N. Carolina, late 1930s, I think. She said the chickens all went to roost as though it were nighttime, and then came out a few minutes later acting really confused.
in 2017 my chickens went into the coop. all of them
Anton, you have a great sense of humor - love your videos!!
I was in Appalachia in 2017 - all the buzzing insects went silent for those few moments of curious darkness, only to return again when the shadow retreated
The Galapagos tortoise behavior seems almost like a crazy human type of response. Like teenagers who ask each other "What would you do if you thought the world was ending?" type of pre-thought. I tried to come up with some clever comment, but just couldn't do it Thanks, Anton!!! I think I'm going to try some "pinhole" view here in LA, I just hope the weather is up to it this year as it's been a strange year for cloud and rain. Gr8! Peace ☮💜
In rural Ireland a couple of decades ago there was an eclipse and it was like someone turned down the volume on a stereo....all the bird sounds faded away to an eerie silence. As the light returned the sounds came back with it.
birds recalling memories from the events during Cretaceous-Paleogene events
I did acid during a lunar eclipse, listened to dark side of the moon. It was a very strange night lol
Sounds fun.
I saw the eclipse in the UK around 10 years ago and all the birds went silent in the trees it was very strange
it was in 1999 I was in Brighton and all the gulls went quiet.
Absolutely understandable on the part of the tortoises. Possibly apocolyptic event happening, gotta start repopulating the tortoise race.
If only PEOPLE would start breeding during eclipses.
Animals behave like a storm that's coming.
Now that makes sense.
Yep, or a fire.
Or quakes.
Or god
@@abrahammagdalena5821Not much occasional records of animals behaving in a certain way to announce the presence of that one.
Capybaras are famous for being chill. I wonder... during an eclipse, do you think they just keep vibing, or is that what makes them finally lose it?
😂excellent question!
During an eclipse I just imagine everyone around me suddenly going feral and the moon not moving away, plunging us into eternal zombie hell. I can't imagine what animals must think 🙃
Having watched the 1999 total eclipse in the U.K., I can vouch for seeing the odd animal behaviour. Not only were the birds fooled into flocking somewhere to roost (and then fly back shortly after), but there were all these primates who stand and walk on two legs who all seemed to sense the eclipse was going to happen, and gathered together in large groups before making appreciative and excited noises while pointing at the sky - almost as if they understood what was happening ;)
On a personal anecdote - it felt WEIRD during the eclipse. It wasn’t just “oh it went a bit dark” as I had imagined it would be, it felt “weird”. It was as if every nerve was excited and hyper sensitive, almost out of body experience. But it was almost like a switch - right up until maybe a few seconds before totality, it didn’t have that feeling. I had seen partial eclipse before and although it was exciting and fun, it was completely different when the shadow zoomed over the clouds (we couldn’t see the sun where we were) but you could see the actual shadow passing overhead as the clouds out near the horizon went suddenly dark, and moments later, like someone throwing a blanket over us, the darkness swept over. The horizon all around looked weird during totality as first one side was still “daylight” in the distance, then the other side was like fire over the sea and the clouds at the horizon started to look like sunset then daylight, then the light swept over us and it was over. 4 minutes 10 seconds of totality - and WEIRD.
If anyone has the chance to get into the path of totality and isn’t sure it’s worth it, do it. It is an incredible experience that I will never forget - and that was under clouds, let alone if you could actually see the corona etc.
Then again, I had been looking forward to, and to an extent, planning my life around being in the right place to see that eclipse in 1999 for approximately 20 years since I first read about it was going to happen in a British Astronomical Association journal when I joined as a kid. I had studied that path of totality and I knew where the longest duration would be, and I knew booking somewhere to stay would be difficult so I had moved to live within half a mile of where I wanted to watch it from several years in advance :)
- I told you some of the primates were acting odd and seemed to know what was happening ;)
Wow, serious commitment to the event. I'm glad you found it rewarding and worth the planning.
I remember in 1999 it was magical too. All dogs started barking and howling even minutes before the totality...when totality arrived all birds went quiet and the world sort of stopped dead. It was a sublime moment I'll never forget. I always wondered how the dogs know it's not a cloud covering the sun, interesting!
There is a misconception about Tortoises breeding during the Eclipse. In actuality, they move so slow that theyre finally getting around to doing it from the LAST eclipse. 🤭
Awesome turtle joke!😂😂😂
Apparently you have never had a tortoise. They can book it (arriviva vaminos) when they want to get away. They have land legs and move swiftly on land, meant for dry land, but can't swim. Tortoises Can't Swim. Turtles Swim. Turtles are clunky on land because they have Flippers. Turtles are fast under water.
@@laurabutler9978 Tortoise, land lubber with legs. Turtle, water swimmer with flippers.
during the 2017 one all the birds in my neighborhood went dead silent. it was creepy.
Indeed.
Well crap! I didn’t even think about this! I literally live across the street from the Cleveland zoo! Looks like I’ll be feeding the Lorikeets next Monday!
I'll be with my animals here outside of Norwalk.
I went to a zoo to watch how a gorilla behaved - he simply went to his hut as if bedtime and then got up a few minutes later at "sunrise" acting normally to me. I was expecting some reaction, but no! Please try observing the big cats and report back.
@@katieandkevinsears7724 that’s what we were planning, going to my friends horse farm in Vermillion.
I live where the two paths of the 2017 eclipse and the 2024 eclipse cross. cant freaking wait for april 8th!
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9:00 Aaah this explains why it got so cold all of a sudden during the eclipse I witnessed in August 1999. Very cool 👍
I would suggest that in the case of primates behavior, they need to think about a safe place to roost before dusk, and they use cues from other animals like birds singing their evening songs, to know when to get in to the trees or build a nest etc. The Gelada baboons sleep on cliffs, it would be interesting to see what they did when they realised they had been caught in the open during an eclipse etc. Predation of primates is a big issue for them wherever they occur naturally.
turtouses have same reaction as me
Thank you for using the phrase "other animals." Carl Sagan did, too, with his 1980 version of Cosmos, which left an impression with me when I was young. I adopted the same phrase, since there is no reason to refer to "humans and animals" as if we were not ourselves part of the animal kingdom.
We're not animals...
Hate to break it to you, but we're mammals from phylum chordata
I tend to agree with the other comments, we are definitely not animals.
Some humans act like animals though. Mainly the stupid ones.
Why not @@WeejixDoWx..? We are mostly hairless great apes so why would we not be also animals? What makes *us* special and if we are not an animal, what TF are we..? Don't just say human either. That's not an answer
@@BardovBacchus What makes us special.
The fact we aren't still living in the dark ages, like the rest of the animal kingdom.
Intelligence.
Animals we may be, the same as the rest of the dumb animals on earth, we definitely aren't.
I remember hearing birds and dogs and squirrels all making noises at the same time back in 2017 when we had that last eclipse.
I'm not excited, but I saw the one in 2017. I also saw the annular eclipse "ring of fire" last year. Didn't even have to travel for that one. But I am happy for my friends in Texas...My advice: If you have to travel stay an extra day, or the traffic will be a nightmare....Oh yeah and if you don't have glasses a CD works. Just don't look very long. Still better to use the glasses.
Once upon a time I was falling in love
Now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart ❤️
Bonnie Tyler
So ... she was singing about tortoises? ;-)
Then you flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun.
Carly Simon
I fukken need ya moooore than eva!🎶🎶🎶
Did you know the songwriter for that one also wrote a few Meatloaf songs? Can you imagine if Meatloaf had been given that song?
missed opportunity with 'turtle eclipse of the heart'
Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. ✌️🙂
I seen the 2017 eclipse in Evansville indiana ! Pretty eerie ! It got dark - the wind stopped then the temp dropped ! Heard crickets and frogs ! It was Totally worth the 350 mile round trip drive
Hmmm im debating on taking a 10 hour trip to see it but not sure its worth it. Thanks for the thoughts
Prayers for you and your family, and all your subscribers.
I'll have to make sure to observe my pets during the eclipse... I'm not in the full zone but very close to it...
Thank you wonderful Anton
Grew up in a zoo cage being cuddled by orangutans (mom was a keeper). When I was six, for the first time ever Sam turned off the price is right and watched. As soon as he hit the power button the whole zoo screamed then it shut down from all sound. It was surreal.
Your videos are so interesting and your voice is like asmr to me. Great stuff.
The sun is blocked so it feels like an extinction event. Anxiety lol
I live near that zoo! We went somewhere else along the total eclipse that year in for a neighborhood party. The stand out moment for me was the wall of sound from all the cicadas, frogs, birds, grasshoppers etc all waking up at the same time. It was eerie how the volume of sound changed proportionally with the progression of the eclipse. That combined with the darkness and visible Corona during total eclipse was amazing. It came and went so fast, I wish I had more time to take it in!
Tortoises gotta love them! When everycreature else are panicking during earth’s darkest moment, they make sure to savor every bit of love that could count.
If you see someone looking down at the ground during the eclipse you will know they watch Anton and are looking for insects
What im curious about is what uncontacted human tribes think of this...
**( I.D.K. •••••••••••• We'LL Have To Ask Them ! )** 😮😊😮
We get the full monty eclipse where I live in New York State. On the other hand, cloud cover is the norm here. May not be much to see!
Lots of squirrels in my yard to observe. After the little buggers ate my car's wiring a month or two ago I hope it scares the hell out of them.A
I will keep an eye out for abberant behavior among neighbors, too.
Thanks, Anton!
In 1999 in Romania, before the maximum stage, all the animals in the yard become to display an anxious behavior. The cows returned home from the pasture, the yardbirds went to coops to sleep as it was night time. The bees returned to hive, the dogs started howling.
all of the birds went quiet in the forest during the last solar eclipse
I was able to see the 2024 eclipse in Texas. I also saw the 2017 eclipse in Nebraska. The most apparent observations is always the birds. They definitely react quickly as the light decreases and then with totality they simply land near their nesting place and get quiet.
Great report on this Anton.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe. I say that for EVERYONE
Hello wonderful Anton
We had a time change here in Switzerland. It feels like I had to wait an extra hour for Anton. So that being said, I spent my time watching that alien dig through my trash. I captured it but had to let it go. It was eating things from my cupboard and making a mess. Most people think aliens are smart but they are not. I am still cleaning pee off my rug.
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Gurl huh? Like really is this a joke? Am I not getting it 😭
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Exactly people don’t understand they aren’t intelligent in the way we think they are. Hell their technology was a given and they still cant land safely.
Simply put yes, but thirteen years ago I couldn’t have known. I can’t believe that Spielman would end up doing this.
All the animals are sentient beings like us, (I’m not vegan) so their own perceptions of the world around them are all different from each other, because they are all different from each other in their own subtle ways, ergo they grew up with different needs, threats, abilities, yet the bottom line is it’s the survival of the fittest. What we can all learn from this, if you take heed and re-read what I’ve just written. What you’ll find, is that I’m way too high to be talking to strangers, so for that I apologise. Happy Easter and don’t forget (if you get time off work) Jesus ROCKS 🤘🏻 peace x🙏🏼
Always interesting, thanks 👍😊
Good choice of topic.
So what you're saying is... The alignment of the planets DOES have an effect on our behavior! You heard it from Anton everyone! 😂
Quit your bullshit, you know what he means.
@@Auroral_Anomalyyoure the bullshit
As always Anton, wonderful presentation 😊.
@@davidjones8043 Last time I checked, a delusion is a mental illness. Why entertain that?
@@Auroral_Anomaly dude chill! It's what's commonly known as a joke
I learned something today 😮, thanks 🙏🏽 Bro
The chipmunks where I live froze, stood up, sensed and realized it had gotten dark and ran back to their home underground and then afterwards came back out and they seemed so confused and keeps making that loud squeak they sometimes make when they're trying to get my attention to feed them
It makes sense so many birds and apes displayed anxiety. They are very intelligent and have a better grasp of time. So when the day suddenly ‘ends’ abruptly it’s frightening.
Meanwhile, other animals likely thought it was nighttime or a storm was coming.
To be honest, aside from a few species, I can't figure out what's so surprising about most of this.
Animals that have only an instinctive sense of time -> sleep
Animals that have a strong enough sense of time to know when something's off -> anxiety
Turtles -> continue being weird
Animals that understand astronomy -> get excited at once-in-a-lifetime event in the sky
It's more the overall changes taking place through the changes in climate etc... They 'animals' are having to adapt to quite volatile changes in many different ways. David Attenborough and his team done a new documentary on the changes animals are going through and it really is quite drastic. Not to mention anomalous behaviours that are ever presenting themselves the more the human world clashes with nature or more specifically encroaching on nature ever more.
@@TheRisenPeopleEire That has nothing to do with a 4 minute eclipse though?
@@reinux Alas you are correct.
You forgot to include bears.
Also, I wonder how kapybaras would react. Probably stay chill, as always.
@@silvergreylion ILove Capybaras!!!
Love it, thanks buddy.