Animal behavior during a solar eclipse
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Animal behavior during a solar eclipse
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Re: Animal behavior during a solar eclipse
#2I drove 2 hours to get into the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse. I just want to reiterate to anyone with a similar opportunity how worthwhile it is to make the trek to be in the path of totality. I had many friends that figured they would just watch from home because "it is going to be 98% eclipsed here". Let me dispel that logic. Anything less than total eclipse is basically unnoticeable, while the total eclipse is achingly beautiful and unique.
As to the article, I noticed many of the strange animal behaviors. Night time bugs came out and birds took to the skies in a hurry. It was quite the experience.
Re: Animal behavior during a solar eclipse
#3I drove 2 hours to get into the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse. I just want to reiterate to anyone with a similar opportunity how worthwhile it is to make the trek to be in the path of totality. I had many friends that figured they would just watch from home because "it is going to be 98% eclipsed here". Let me dispel that logic. Anything less than total eclipse is basically unnoticeable, while the total eclip…
I was several hundred miles north of the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse. I walked around the path outside my office during the event. Even though it wasn't total, there was a noticable dimming outside and it actually started feeling cold. I'm sure the effect would be far more pronounced had it been a total eclipse, but it was definitely noticable where I was.
Re: Animal behavior during a solar eclipse
#4Liked it better when Annie Dillard wrote it https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/annie-di...
Re: Animal behavior during a solar eclipse
#5I drove 2 hours to get into the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse. I just want to reiterate to anyone with a similar opportunity how worthwhile it is to make the trek to be in the path of totality. I had many friends that figured they would just watch from home because "it is going to be 98% eclipsed here". Let me dispel that logic. Anything less than total eclipse is basically unnoticeable, while the total eclip…
I was several hundred miles north of the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse. I walked around the path outside my office during the event. Even though it wasn't total, there was a noticable dimming outside and it actually started feeling cold. I'm sure the effect would be far more pronounced had it been a total eclipse, but it was definitely noticable where I was.
“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.” - Annie Dillard
Re: Animal behavior during a solar eclipse
#6I went to great trouble to be in the path of totality in a completely isolated area with no other people probably within ten miles. Yes, the animals did behave strangely. The various calls seemed, and I'm searching for the right word, somewhere between hesitant and curious. Tentative, perhaps. The tone of the remaining light is ... odd. It wasn't quite twilight light, and I think that part right there is a little confusing for animals.
Re: Animal behavior during a solar eclipse
#7I drove 2 hours to get into the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse. I just want to reiterate to anyone with a similar opportunity how worthwhile it is to make the trek to be in the path of totality. I had many friends that figured they would just watch from home because "it is going to be 98% eclipsed here". Let me dispel that logic. Anything less than total eclipse is basically unnoticeable, while the total eclip…
I was several hundred miles north of the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse. I walked around the path outside my office during the event. Even though it wasn't total, there was a noticable dimming outside and it actually started feeling cold. I'm sure the effect would be far more pronounced had it been a total eclipse, but it was definitely noticable where I was.
I also got a partial and was surprised at how cold it got quickly (this was August in Utah, normally blazing hot).
If you can't make it to totality (it was my first day at a new job, definitely couldn't make it), do experience the partial because it's cool. I'll be journeying next time tho to experience totality.
Re: Animal behavior during a solar eclipse
#8We wouldn’t get to see the total eclipse—that dramatic upheaval of the afternoon’s forward march, an ebb when there should be flow.
I thought this would be about animal behaviour during a solar eclipse, as that's the title. It is actually written by a poet and so is more style than substance
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#9An eclipse is such an amazing phenomenon. The last time it happened I had my mind blown by a simple realization:
There is no physical reason why the moon fits precisely within the diameter of the sun.
It just so happens that on our little planet with sentient life, in which human life is present for only an incredibly small window, the time in which we are present and looking to the skies is when the diameter and distances of the sun and moon align so perfectly as to fit one within the other.
Re: Animal behavior during a solar eclipse
#10I drove 2 hours to get into the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse. I just want to reiterate to anyone with a similar opportunity how worthwhile it is to make the trek to be in the path of totality. I had many friends that figured they would just watch from home because "it is going to be 98% eclipsed here". Let me dispel that logic. Anything less than total eclipse is basically unnoticeable, while the total eclip…
> achingly beautiful
Wonderfully put. I didn't get to observe any particular changes in animal behavior out in the desert, but the change from partial to total eclipse is dramatic and incomparable.
The stars come out against a sudden twilight blue sky with the eclipse blazing overhead. And when it suddenly ended, I could understand why some people become eclipse chasers.
Definitely worth driving out--plus the long drive back in all that traffic--and sleeping in the car that weekend!