Weird Things Animals Do During Eclipses
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For centuries, humans have reported animals freaking out during solar eclipses, like birds falling from the sky and bees hiding in their hives, but the animals most affected by eclipses might be us.
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UPDATE: The Eclipse Soundscapes project is no longer sending audio recording devices to participants interested in contributing to their study. However, they are still actively recruiting observers! If you are interested in helping the Eclipse Soundscapes project uncover the secrets of animal behavior during this year's solar eclipse, please go to eclipsesoundscapes.org/observer/
Great video!
make a science video about the damage caused to innocent people by the War on Drugs please : )
I wonder if they can team up with the Cornell bird lab? I already have the Merlin app, which seems like it would be perfect for this.
We had a solar eclipse here in Maine, I wore 2 sunglasses just to see it. It was beautiful.
I was in an Oregon forest during totality, and wolves all around us miles away started howling. It was a transcendent experience.
Ooh, jealous!
Very different than my experience. All of the animals got eerily quiet in the city.
Suuuuure
@@FoxSqueeArt Why so skeptical? Oregon has forests...
Yo same
Galapagos tortoises know it best: "World's about to end, might as well have some fun".
They was watching that Moon p 😂😂😂
*-SEX-*
fun
Fr tho
My thoughts were that they were having a religious experience, but I like this explanation better
We can learn a lot from tortoises. The world would be a better place if we responded to confusion and chaos with orgies instead of conflict.
Chimpanzees just have the same reaction as us "Mmm, the Sun is gone, insteresting, gonna climb up to watch it better"
Yeah, Chimpanzees are similar enough to humans that I feel like it's not a stretch to say they might be thinking something similar to us.
Chimps are extremely intelligent. Capable of somewhat complex communication methods, tool use, and even having a sort of culture, it's not far fetched to imagine that they are interested in the rare phenomenon simply because it's rare, and not because it's something threatening.
You know, they might even steal some eclipse glasses 😅
Chimps are also as sadistic, cruel, and cunning as humans. So yeah, they're very similar to us.
@@jaserrorthey're also sweet and affectionate with their family, they tickle each other for fun, they mourn their dead and adopt orphans, they co-operate to gather communal food.
I experienced a 6 min long total solar eclipse in Guatemala in 1991, on a mountain in a jungle. It was in the middle of the day, and long enough that the temperature dropped noticeably. I was only expecting a visual experience, but the sounds of the wildlife reacting to it was just as memorable. That, and how all the local humans seemed to vanish afterwards.
That sounds like an incredible experience!
@MinuteEarth , why afe the humans on your channel look like stickmen,why?????????
@@Geniusprimate why wouldn't it it's easier to draw and try doing it yourself!!
Well idc
your pfp explains ur mentality. Also I know most apes are smart (monkey etc..) Also go get a life as an digital artist I felt bad for ur "somehow stick men " drawn in this video like bro at least they can draw hair and bear.
So you say we are totally in the dark about animal behaviour during an eclipse?
this made me crack up for several minutes hahaa
Makes sense, this joke is good@@harashisharora1521
I thought that was an insult, it's even worse
TAKE YOUR LIKE AND GET OUT
Well, the future is bright at least.
This sounds like a great opportunity for citizen science. People can record their local animals when eclipse happens. Also the fact that a given species may react different to different eclipses is making me think animals have a larger social/cultural factor than I previously thought
its not that not enough people are doing it, its that eclipsea rarely happen in the same spot.
@@user-et2dx5du7e one team of scoentists. Maybe 10 locations. Citizen scientist manh locations within the eclipse. Still much better sample size. Limited ability to control for other variables however like time of day
If you pay enough attention, so much information is out there.
If a bird of prey is spotted, birds of various species take up the "danger!" call. Even if that bird had only just flown into the area, and was never around when the bird of prey was.
People have always watched animals to learn from them.
Everyone makes the (really unimaginative) joke "who do you think was the first one to try eating this *thing that isn't obviously edible, or could be mistaken for something poisonous*?"
It was probably people watching animals eat that stuff first.
@@KingRidley Or they had a Steve to try out various mushrooms to see which is okay to eat. :p
Amusingly, some animals can just eat things, and if we copy them, we die.
But I suppose a wise person would watch a variety of animals eat something before trying it.
I work for a soul crushing corporation. Even we got free eclipse glasses handed out so we could all go outside and observe. The animals in the area were probably like 'wtf, there are over a thousand humans outside at the wrong time of day, all at once, and just standing there making sounds they never make!'
They just want you to be at work that day without leaving themselves open to accusations of not safeguarding you against a hazard by failing to provide ppe.
It reminds me of how when humans weren’t as advanced they were terrified by the solar eclipse, and were likely not sure what it was that was blocking the sun, but until we figured out it was the moon doing this, we became fascinated and excited by them, instead of scared. So I think if the animals somehow knew it was a normal thing for a eclipse, and it was only temporary they would probably act like they would normally.
Judging by the variation in the animal behaviour, I'd bet some did guess or at least felt like it wasn't a sign of the end times. All the things he denoted sounds (to me) like it could be explained by group behaviour + a range of thoughts on the eclipse.
One baboon/horse/giraffe sees it, and its behaviour is more biased towards finding new things scary (either through biological conditioning or experience), and freaks out. The rest then sees their friend freaking out, and also start freaking out.
Some of the birds see darkness, their strong instinct is to just go sleep, so they do.
Some of the chimpanzees are biased towards curiosity (same reasons as before) sees eclipse, is like "WHOAAAA, THAT'S COOL AF", climbs tree for better view, other monkeys see him and are like "oh wait that's a good idea, I'mma do that too".
One gibbon notices how novel this is, talks to the others like "Y'ALL SEE THIS? COOL SHIT HAPPENING UP THERE", and the rest propogate that message.
Bear sees it, thinks "meh, I've seen darkness before" and ignores it.
People in the comments think that since they know it's a rare space event that somehow animals must magically also know and consider it sacred like astrology planetary alignment.
People have known it was the moon blocking the sun for a very *very* long time. Eclipses are what allowed Greek natural philosphers to accurately calculate the size of the moon and its distance.
And they were still terrified of it.
🤣
Wait humans are advanced?
I was actually at a zoo during the last total solar eclipse. It seemed a lot of animals settled down (as if it were nighttime) but who knows
its quite possible that animals in a zoo have learned they are in a safe environment and are a lot more likely to have a calm reaction thanks to it, and that the same animal would react entirely different in the wild
which zoo i might have been there
@@TheHenirik "its quite possible that animals in a zoo have learned they are in a safe environment and are a lot more likely to have a calm reaction thanks to it, and that the same animal would react entirely different in the wild"
It's also quite possible that you are projecting human behaviors onto animals and that they in general cares as little as humans about these short lived events. The sun can also hide behind and appear from clouds multiple times a day, so variations in light is a natural phenomenon.
@@yourcrazybear you know, I believe most humans would care about a total eclipse is they never heard much about it before, especially in times when the belief in spirits and mythology was stronger.
I believe that in such a case a human could have much a stronger reaction to the eclipse then would be likely with any other animal, and start thinking about the end of the world and evil spirits and things like that.
Nowadays eclipses are expected phenomena, everyone know about them and everyone knows how they work.
And clouds may cover the sky and make the sun darker but from my understanding a total eclipse is totally different, though personally I have only seen a few partial ones.
With that said animals often react to unexpected things with caution, something also humans do, but especially wild animals who know that there might be things they haven't encountered before out hunting them.
@@TheHenirik I think you both offer valid points, but you’re right - it is different from any other kind of darkness. It’s about as dark as dusk (typically darker than most storms). The transition time plays a huge factor too. While clouds slowly build into storms or the sun slowly sets, it’s hard to compare that to switching from noon to dusk in a matter of seconds
I once observed a bunch of furless bipedal monkeys during the eclipse. They went out in groups and held what appeared to be a rectangular thing in front of their head while gazing upon the sky, pretty impressive
I witnessed a group too! They were making "oooh" and "ahh" noises at each other
Maybe the animals the reason people used to consider eclipses to be catastrophic events
That is possible, but then again.
If you were a person from the past who has no understanding and or concept of science or astronomy for that matter as well as raised your entire life in a religion oriented community worshipping multiple or singular deities, you'd shit your pants.
Edit: Typo
@@krackokragi sortof understand these things and i remember thebsolar eclipse being a deeply weird experience.
@@krackokrag On the other hand the events are too short to even matter for people. It's more like it's yet another thing some people can exploit in order to trick some dumb people to follow them.
a lot of animals also behave unusually prior to natural disasters like earthquake or hurricane, so people back then could also had came the same conclusion with solar eclipse, regarding how animals also behaved in solar eclipse back then
@@krackokragnot necessarily. I feel like we highlight the most melodramatic of reactions from past civilizations. But they were more intimately connected with the sky than us and many were well aware of eclipses.
I know you specify those without knowledge of astronomy, but a lot of ancient civilizations had astronomy.
From a fitness perspective, an eclipse is such a rare event that lasts for so little time that any reaction to it would cause a negligable change in fitness. I would be very surprised if any adaptation were programmed specifically to eclipses.
And that is what many researchers think as well - it's far too infrequent to incur any adaptive behaviors, besides, so instead, animals are mostly just startled.
Do animals go crazy every time a cloud moves in front of the sun? People in the comments didn't understand the video at all...
Edit: People think it's special because they know it's a rare space event (hindsight bias) and therefore think animals must also consider it special and profound like tarot cards and astrology.
@@dangerflyfull eclipses and clouds are kinda differenr
No one in human history has ever mistaken clouds for eclipses or vice versa. Clouds don't block light and heat the way the moon does.
@@SgtSupaman Yeah, I've never been in a rainstorm where the sky turns dark in the middle of the day. Animals are super sensitive to everything, especially to their phone alerts for an eclipse that day.
Also, Venus is the coldest planet due to how its thin clouds don't block light and heat from escaping. Therefore, global warming is fake.
(Also, Superman is a narcissist. Yes, it's me again, your nemesis.)
I heard that if an eclipse happens then enemies will invade and a giant mechanical moth will appear and give you the broken blade of a hero to forge a sword made from light and dark
it seems that the eclipse has confused the mudskippers aswell
Bro I swear if the moonseye converges again I’m gonna ransack erisia
I heard that Firebenders lose their fire.
@@Gr3nadgr3goryoh yeah! Don’t worry, there is no war in ba sing sea
And a pretty good yoyo if you're lucky
I've been through many partial eclipses and the bird behavior really depends on how dark it gets. Flocking birds are the easiest to notice because they'll go to their evening gathering points and chatter up a storm the way they usually do on a typical evening. If it gets dark enough, they'll stop chattering entirely as if it's about to be night. Solitary birds (woodpeckers, vultures, hawks, etc.) also do their evening/night behaviors, but they're not as obvious to the average person as the chattering birds are.
Looking forward to April's eclipse.
lol the turtles just start mating! I laughed a little to much at this
You know, while we are all here...
@@jm8361I'm listening~
@@dragonflied3 💀🐹
Actually you didn't laugh -enough.-
Mood lighting
The bears doing the bare minimum is such a mood
Don't you mean…
The bear minimum?
Okay, I'll walk myself out.
The gibbons started singing the opening of "Rite of Spring" by Stravinsky? That's pretty cool, wonder if they heard it recorded before, or just came up with it on the spot a la "12 Monkeys." /s
Is there a tool to search songs by their notes? Or did you just recognize that? If so that is very impressive
I am just genuinely curious, since that was a really small introduction
There’s an (alleged) quote from Camille Saint-Saens from the premiere hearing that phrase of music from the bassoon and saying “That’s not a bassoon, that’s a baboon!” He probably wasn’t even there, nor said it, but it’s a quote that’s connected with it, and probably why that baboon is singing it :)
@@kylenelson1517Oh that’s pretty funny 😂
You forgot one animal, Humans. During a Solar Eclipse everyone's firebending power equalizes to zero.
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LMAO
This next total eclipse is going to happen on my birthday!! It’s gonna cover a lot of the US, all I’ll be in the 90% zone! What a special birthday gift I’ve been waiting 7 years for!
Happy early birthday then😊!
do yourself a favor and get into the path of totality!
Hope you have a happy birthday tomorrow!🎉
2017 was my first total eclipse, too and my god it was amazing. When the moon finally covered the last sliver of sun, in that moment I knew the awe and terror these things must have inspired. Truly something that everyone should experience at least once in their lives.
I was in India for a total eclipse in 1995. We were out in the middle of nowhere at some ruins, and when it went dark a whole bunch of bats came flying out from the cracks. Super surreal experience.
love the rite of spring reference!
Love that you used the bassoon solo from 'Rite of Spring' for the gibbons' strange calls
i remember wathing a total sun eclipse (around 2005 i think) and in my town it didn't turn into night but it was more like a twighlight at 11:00 AM.
we were fascinated and we're trying so hard not to look directly at it 🤣 but the birds were freaking out! singing, making noise flapping around!
Crazy how humans start researching animal behavior during a solar eclipse, such fascinating creatures.
2017 I was in a national park. All the birds went dead silent when the eclipse hit. It was creapy. Also it's crazy how fast the temprature drops when the shadow passes over you. Like a good 10 degrees less.
I love how large groups of humans congregate and become much more sociable than normal.
In our area, the birds were silent. Bugs were loud, but i'm not sure it was any more than normal for the time.
I loved how the eclipse affected the shadows from the leaves in the tree. It reminded me of someone taking a photoshop image brush of the shape of the sun, and using it to create a textured shadow. It was eerily gorgeous.
now I want the Galapagos tortoise part narrated by ZeFrank for some reason
I remember during the 2017 eclipse I had traveled into Nebraska and was watching from a field near the road, and songs birds came swooping to trees, singing, went silent at totality, then began to sing more, and swooped back out into the sky. Like they were living through a day and night sped up. It was very interesting, looking forward to this year's eclipse. :)
0:17 LINK!?!?
The chimpanzees acted just like humans
Makes a surprising amount of sense. They’re our closest species, IIRC
Well we shared like 95-97% of their DNA/genes
@@starmaker75it’s more like 98.5-99.2%
iF wE caMe FrOm cHimPs ThAn WhY ArE tHeR sTiLl MoNkEeeZ? 😖🥴😵💫
@@gladoseon4117 That's only if you purely count genes, if you count non-coding DNA, which we used to call junk DNA the % falls dramatically.
Fun anecdotal fact from my experience during the last big solar eclipse in the US. When it kicked off all the birds in the area started freaking out and singing super loudly, like they all wanted each other to notice what was going on.
But when the full eclipse happened everything went totally silent. It felt like the whole world went still while we all stared skyward waiting to see if this would pass or if this was our new normal and the world would be shrouded in darkness forever
I’ve been so looking forward to April 8th from 3:05-3:08 pm in Marion, IN for a year now, got my glasses ready!
Don't think I didn't notice the monkeys singing the bassoon solo from Rite of Spring lol
I was going to comment on the fact that they were singing in tenor clef, didn't even notice what the notes were!
As someone who can’t read sheet music, thank you for sharing that little Easter egg with the rest of us 🥚 🌟
1:39 I love how chimpanzees staring at the sky is a “novel behaviour” when we do literally the exact same thing (just not in trees obviously)
I was scaring the crap out of my neighbors during totality. I set up torches, carved a pentagram into the ground out in a field, and started dancing around it gesturing towards the sky 😂 needless to say, it worked lol
Turtle: OH NO THE WORLD IS ENDING!...QUICK LETS BANG!
The eclipse is passing right over where I work and it is a remote area with plenty of birds and some foxes who made a den outside our window (generally some baby foxes around that time of year as well) so it will be interesting to see how they all react.
Are you a park ranger or something? That must be a cool job, working somewhere remote like that.
Something tells me that after the eclipse we had here in Maine today, there's gonna be a lot of creepypasta stories based on it.
Who else just saw the eclipse?
Me! But I only got 90%. (Do not find my location)
I got 99%, but I didn't get to see it completely cover the sun because I was in class.
I saw the totally in Toledo Ohio. It was a surreal experience!
I was in Idaho Falls for the 2017 total eclipse. I remember the birds all seemed disoriented. There was a group of them that were walking around on the ground in circles.
My first experience with an eclipse (partial) in 1970, the birds went absolutely bonkers when the sky darkened.
I made a point to see the 2017 total eclipse and anticipated a cacophony of animal voices with the darkness.
But not a peep. Not a chirp nor insect buzz. The silence was actually a bit unnerving.
The first story is anecdotal, but I recorded the second so I have evidence of the silence.
Hey Cameron, make sure to listen out for the songbirds in April and get that repeat observation in!
I do wonder, although complete eclipses are relatively rare, if we might be able to improve our sample sizes for these studies into animals with a bit of preparation. Perhaps if a bunch of scientists at different spots along the path of an eclipse took a common species (or handful of them) and all recorded down their behaviour at their point along the eclipse.
I took a vacation day to experience the solar ellipse. I'm super excited.
I went to Cairns, Australia in 2012 to view the eclipse down there, and we had our viewing from the balcony of a nature habitat. Many of us had our cameras trained on the various fauna in there and while the totality itself wasn't much to look at (one annoying cloud in the way of an otherwise clear sky), the animals seemed to start going to sleep. Or perhaps they had no idea what to do because the sun had only come up an hour before so they freaked out and froze up. Either way the dead silence in a usually noisy greenhouse full of kookaburras and cassowaries was eerie.
I just experienced totality today (April 8) it was a truly incredible and surreal experience. I will never forget being biologically shook when I looked at the sun comfortably. It’s an experience beyond words. Truly insane!
I was on the beach in SC during 2017 in the path of totality. The birds did get loud and flew towards the inlet for bed. Also the crabs came out and ran along the beach like they normally do at night. The twilight sky color was amazing, but when the corona started shimmering and then the diamond ring….BREATHTAKING!!! 🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌕
My guess is the Tortoises mating likely had less to do with the eclipse and more to do with them all being in close proximity. The eclipse may have cause the proximity, but the mating was merely a side effect
1:38 - What happened to the eyes of the Chimpanzees that stared at the sky (with the eclipse going on)?
If it was at totality, nothing would happen to their eyes.
iirc the danger of staring at an eclipse isn't the moment of totality. It's right after, which comes deceptively quickly. Even at just a 1% crescent sliver of the Sun, it's right back to daytime. It's crazy how much light that big ball of plasma in the sky gives off. I didn't notice any visible change to the world even as I was constantly putting on and taking off my glasses. The only reason I knew the eclipse was "in progress"was because I could see the Moon slide in front of our Sun slowly when I had them on. But without? not a chance!! Haha, only when the last tiny strip of light got covered, suddenly nighttime hit like a truck, approaching swiftly as the horizon just bent over the day sky and suddenly there were stars everywhere. It's... wild. If you ever get the chance, go see one.
Its going to pass right over me! So exciting, I have a reminder on my phone set for April 8th.
The baboons singing the Rite of Spring Passage is appreciated. As a bassoon player, I feel seen and heard
Today during the eclipse, the crows and vultures starting going crazy during totality, flying around, cawing, finding a tree to sleep in, etc. My chickens got so confused and kind of headed to their coop, and my cats and dog were just staring and barking/meowing. Crazy stuff!
At the end of this study I realized that nature is simply weird and unexpected.
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This was an amazing video! I am so happy I found this!
When I experienced the 2017 total solar eclipse, all the birds around went silent and the grasshoppers also stopped chirping it was as if the entire area just stopped to watch the eclipse
I experienced the 2017 totality. Most amazing experience of my life just sitting in a lawn chair. I’m so looking forward to the one coming up.
I heard a certain species pulls out some kind of photographing equipment and they all keep pointing it at it
Who else is excited for the one in a few months ?!
For once I’m glad to live in Ohio
This video is fantastic, but let's be real: We are absolutely no different, even during eclipses. We have done much weirder things for much less of an occasion. Sadly, nobody can ask animals about our weird behaviour.
"This video is fantastic, but let's be real: We are absolutely no different, even during eclipses. We have done much weirder things for much less of an occasion. Sadly, nobody can ask animals about our weird behaviour."
Most people doesn't care that much about an eclipse. It's an odd event that some people take a little break to observe, but that's about it.
@@yourcrazybear Okay, I found another weird one.
@@antonk.653 "Okay, I found another weird one"
Personal attacks are never valid arguments. Try again.
@@yourcrazybear But humor is. Because I am not going to argue against you if you misconstruct my argument.
@@antonk.653 "But humor is. "
Trying to defend your personal attack by attaching the label humor on it doesn't make it a valid argument.
"Because I am not going to argue against you if you misconstruct my argument."
That's interesting coming from a person that posted a personal attack as a reply instead of an actual argument. And no. I did not misconstruct your argument. You made a claim that humans would be no different and would be doing weird thing during eclipses. I simply corrected you on this weird claim and you displaying a lack of counter arguments posted a personal attack as a reply. While it's understandable that you are not going to argue if you lack any arguments to begin with, it's much less understandable that you resort to lame personal attacks in your replies instead of actual arguments.
I've been so stoked about his upcoming eclipse since I found out I would be in it's path. I was planning on going out and recording the wildlife. This is fascinating!
A few months ago, during the 2023 Annular eclipse, even though we weren't in the Line Of Totality, the sunlight got noticeably dimmer at the apex. My nieces and I were watching the eclipse through cereal boxes made into Eclipse Boxes, and my dad would come out and check every few minutes. During the apex, a few bees flying around us appeared lethargic, and one landed on me, and another on my dad, until it finished.
During the last eclipse insects started chirping and I saw birds flying around trees trying to find a roosting spot. It wasn't "weird" per se. They just thought night was falling.
Me during eclipses on Earth: Oh look the birds are singing together all of a sudden.
Me during eclipses on Titan: Oh look the eyele- gets mauled to death*
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1:35 I appreciate the rite of spring reference on the Gibbons' drawing!
yt makes me sad nowadays, the design and music here are very comforting and I hope more of my recommended is like this 👍
90% of video: we dont know much about animal behaviour during eclipses
The moment the sun gets blocked out, the animals just hear
"It's going to be a terrible night..."
I personally felt an incredibly strange sensation when I witnessed the totality in 2017. Hard to explain, it was almost like dizziness, or attraction to the ground, amongst other things. Anyone else experience something similiar?
that rite of spring reference was so good bro
Ever heard of the eclipse from berserk
Chimps bout to use behelit
to achieve its dream after been captured by chimp king.
Gus berk
@@JerryAss *CHIMPIIIIIIIIIIIITH!!!!*
The 2017 was my solar eclipse too! We came to America specially to see it. The birds were the first thing I noticed, then the absurd way that nighttime and stars swept across the sky in an arc as if sliding over a cover of a round toy. What an experience
this april's eclipse in New York state will be my first experience of totality. I can't wait!! 🤓
Same
Live close to Cleveland so after the total eclipse on April 8 today, the two wild mallard ducks in my pond got out and started mating
I watched the 2007 eclipse from a zoo in South Carolina! I’m excited for April 8th!
My school is doing a field trip for this! I’m so excited 😆
0:25:
"Hey the sky's gone dark all of a sudden."
"What should we do?"
"idk... orgy?"
"I'm in. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"
Someone say that the eclipse serves to make more randomness around that moment of promiscuity, while others say the purpose of it is, and I quote, "shield from God's eyes the shame of such a decadent and disgraceful act".
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(Sam O'Nella semi quote)
Tortoises response: "well this is it baby. Hold me."
I was in the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse. My favorite part of the experience were the fireflies coming out and glowing like it was night-time.
Torts taking going out with a bang serious
Birds:
“Y’all it’s night let’s fly back to nest”
“That was quick”
My first (and only) total solar eclipse was in England in the 90s. There were free solar eclipse glasses in the newspapers and we went to a watch party
In upstate South Carolina in 2017 in a 12 ache woods it was completely silent. Maybe one ominous bird call but that was it then bugs started chittering and birds noise when the sun came back reminded me of that 2001 Space movie
Flipped that sh!t around! At first I was like, yep yep yep, animals are weird -to - yep yep yep, people are weird.... 😅
Maybe animals are just like us, some of us care and some of us don’t. Some animals are like “wtf it’s night?” And other are like “ok”
Given how great apes tend to look at the eclipse I'm tempted to show them sun visors which allow them to see the eclipse more clearly and study that reaction. We know that the others (great apes) can display emotions quite similiar to us in a more child like manor so seeing them realise what's up with that weird thing and the eclipse may get some rather cool reactions from them.
Caught the 2017 eclipse in Idaho, while the wife and I were on honeymoon. I remember an eerie stillness to everything, but not much else. I suppose we were too busy trying to take a decent picture of the eclipse to notice much else. 🤷♂️
it will be interesting to see the results of this study
good sources for eclipse glasses? I live right in that line of totality and am stoked!! Hoping the weather is nice that day!
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@@MrT------5743 Personally rather not give bezos money
1:33 THE RITE OF SPRING!!!
This may be a dumb question but: have biologists ever thought that reactions to stimuli might be inherently random? Like not completely random but more of a weighted distribution.
If so, I would love to know more about how they tested it and what their conclusions were!
There are many well-studied and repeatable animal behaviors, and, for stimuli that are familiar and frequent in an animal's world, there are often super predictable responses to those things (think Pavlov's dog as a common example of a predictable stimulus response). But in the cases of eclipse behaviors, they may be close to random in many cases. Eclipses are so infrequent that it doesn't make sense for there to be any particularly repeatable behaviors. But I think that's what makes the question interesting - What do all of these animals do when faced with a totally natural and impressive thing that is completely unfamiliar?
@@MinuteEarth that's a good point that frequent stimuli gives predictable reactions. It makes me wonder if there's some underlying neurological mechanism that correlates predictability with how familiar the stimuli is.
Thank you for answering my question, btw!
I kinda wonder how we would react if we weren't taught from a young age that eclipses are even a thing. Imagine witnessing something like that not knowing it was coming.
Meanwhile, animals are telling each other: "Humans are *weird* during day-dark events... One of them just stood there, watching all of us get it on! Shameless!"
watching this during solar eclipse 2024 making me an astronomer
for vertebrates it seems like a small peek into what emotions they may or may not share with us. and we may also just be projecting sometimes
The animals were what I noticed first and focused most on when I saw the total eclipse in 2017. It was spooky.
In 2024 solar eclipse, I witnessed in San Antonio lots of birds started falling from the sky, crickets started making noises like it was dark, and dogs started barking and howling once the darkness xame it lasted 4 to 5 minutes from where I was.
Imagine there being a solar eclipse, but you have to watch tortoises mate and take notes, for science
Love how the video concludes by slamming down hard, if politely, on well-intentioned but poorly-executed science
The baboons' mystery call in the thought bubble was the opening of Stravinski's "Right of Spring" fyi.