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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@MinuteEarth 3 месяца назад

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/

@usernametaken017 3 месяца назад

Great video!

@kranich9077 3 месяца назад

make a science video about the damage caused to innocent people by the War on Drugs please : )

@-beee- 3 месяца назад

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.

@bethanyhaffey975 Месяц назад

We had a solar eclipse here in Maine, I wore 2 sunglasses just to see it. It was beautiful.

@marioreds7826 3 месяца назад

Galapagos tortoises know it best: "World's about to end, might as well have some fun".

@little.zayzay 3 месяца назад

They was watching that Moon p 😂😂😂

@stemmingtrain5188 3 месяца назад

*-SEX-* fun

@foxerboxer1188 3 месяца назад

Fr tho

@PlanetaryResetMusic 3 месяца назад

My thoughts were that they were having a religious experience, but I like this explanation better

@arthas640 3 месяца назад

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.

@justwhistlinpixie 3 месяца назад

I was in an Oregon forest during totality, and wolves all around us miles away started howling. It was a transcendent experience.

@RosheenQuynh 3 месяца назад

Ooh, jealous!

@apocalypse487 3 месяца назад

Very different than my experience. All of the animals got eerily quiet in the city.

@FoxSqueeArt 3 месяца назад

Suuuuure

@RosheenQuynh 3 месяца назад

@@FoxSqueeArt Why so skeptical? Oregon has forests...

@hellistheunderworld 3 месяца назад

Yo same

@Temtatork 3 месяца назад

Chimpanzees just have the same reaction as us "Mmm, the Sun is gone, insteresting, gonna climb up to watch it better"

@LashknifeTalon 3 месяца назад

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.

@zcarp8642 3 месяца назад

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.

@Rayleigheffects 3 месяца назад

You know, they might even steal some eclipse glasses 😅

@jaserror 3 месяца назад

Chimps are also as sadistic, cruel, and cunning as humans. So yeah, they're very similar to us.

@Murglie 3 месяца назад

@@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.

@winklethrall2636 3 месяца назад

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.

@MinuteEarth 3 месяца назад

That sounds like an incredible experience!

@Geniusprimate 3 месяца назад

@MinuteEarth , why afe the humans on your channel look like stickmen,why?????????

@himabluefangssplace 3 месяца назад

@@Geniusprimate why wouldn't it it's easier to draw and try doing it yourself!!

@Geniusprimate 3 месяца назад

Well idc

@himabluefangssplace 3 месяца назад

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.

@babilon6097 3 месяца назад

So you say we are totally in the dark about animal behaviour during an eclipse?

@harashisharora1521 3 месяца назад

this made me crack up for several minutes hahaa

@Ibadullah 3 месяца назад

Makes sense, this joke is good@@harashisharora1521

@ourlordandsaviorsquirtle3278 3 месяца назад

I thought that was an insult, it's even worse

@valiang8867 3 месяца назад

TAKE YOUR LIKE AND GET OUT

@yourcrazybear 3 месяца назад

Well, the future is bright at least.

@AileneJohannsen-xw5fl 3 месяца назад

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

@user-et2dx5du7e 3 месяца назад

its not that not enough people are doing it, its that eclipsea rarely happen in the same spot.

@AileneJohannsen-xw5fl 3 месяца назад

@@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

@Scapestoat 3 месяца назад

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.

@KingRidley 3 месяца назад

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.

@Scapestoat 3 месяца назад

@@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.

@theprecipiceofreason 3 месяца назад

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!'

@johngayder9249 3 месяца назад

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.

@anabanananaa 3 месяца назад

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.

@cetomedo 3 месяца назад

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.

@dangerfly 3 месяца назад

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.

@michaeljones7620 3 месяца назад

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.

@KyleEvra Месяц назад

🤣

@j7404 Месяц назад

Wait humans are advanced?

@justindie7543 3 месяца назад

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.

@MinuteEarth 3 месяца назад

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.

@dangerfly 3 месяца назад

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.

@davidzaydullin 3 месяца назад

@@dangerflyfull eclipses and clouds are kinda differenr

@SgtSupaman 3 месяца назад

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.

@dangerfly 3 месяца назад

@@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.)

@ZeeengMicro 3 месяца назад

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

@Shrooblord 3 месяца назад

I witnessed a group too! They were making "oooh" and "ahh" noises at each other

@mikeroni 3 месяца назад

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

@TheHenirik 3 месяца назад

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

@boponthewee7585 3 месяца назад

which zoo i might have been there

@yourcrazybear 3 месяца назад

@@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.

@TheHenirik 3 месяца назад

@@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.

@mikeroni 3 месяца назад

@@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

@scoutgaming737 3 месяца назад

Maybe the animals the reason people used to consider eclipses to be catastrophic events

@krackokrag 3 месяца назад

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

@robertstuckey6407 3 месяца назад

@@krackokragi sortof understand these things and i remember thebsolar eclipse being a deeply weird experience.

@yourcrazybear 3 месяца назад

@@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.

@quoccuongtran724 3 месяца назад

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

@1001011011010 3 месяца назад

@@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.

@user-mg5ip7rn2k 3 месяца назад

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

@billybobjoephilcorncobtiptopge 3 месяца назад

it seems that the eclipse has confused the mudskippers aswell

@user-mg5ip7rn2k 3 месяца назад

Bro I swear if the moonseye converges again I’m gonna ransack erisia

@Gr3nadgr3gory Месяц назад

I heard that Firebenders lose their fire.

@KikiKiki-le9qe Месяц назад

@@Gr3nadgr3goryoh yeah! Don’t worry, there is no war in ba sing sea

@noenvyjustenby7643 10 дней назад

And a pretty good yoyo if you're lucky

@GeoffShouldWin 3 месяца назад

You forgot one animal, Humans. During a Solar Eclipse everyone's firebending power equalizes to zero.

@vietnamden 2 месяца назад

From avatar

@kara35873 Месяц назад

LMAO

@piman13_71 3 месяца назад

lol the turtles just start mating! I laughed a little to much at this

@jm8361 3 месяца назад

You know, while we are all here...

@dragonflied3 3 месяца назад

@@jm8361I'm listening~

@tajuddinahmed3379 3 месяца назад

@@dragonflied3 💀🐹

@KingRidley 3 месяца назад

Actually you didn't laugh -enough.-

@floydstephman 2 месяца назад

Mood lighting

@davidg5898 3 месяца назад

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.

@NorbiWhitney 3 месяца назад

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.

@kumottakun6089 3 месяца назад

The bears doing the bare minimum is such a mood

@sergei_mikhailovich Месяц назад

Don't you mean… The bear minimum? Okay, I'll walk myself out.

@Aaron42J 3 месяца назад

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

@UnemptyVoid 3 месяца назад

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

@kylenelson1517 2 месяца назад

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 :)

@alexandredumas3384 2 месяца назад

@@kylenelson1517Oh that’s pretty funny 😂

@frownyclowny6955 3 месяца назад

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!

@78tdjgdg13 3 месяца назад

Happy early birthday then😊!

@nickgarcia6572 Месяц назад

do yourself a favor and get into the path of totality!

@sb9316 Месяц назад

Hope you have a happy birthday tomorrow!🎉

@tinfang-warble 3 месяца назад

love the rite of spring reference!

@KingMertel 3 месяца назад

Crazy how humans start researching animal behavior during a solar eclipse, such fascinating creatures.

@MarioMonte13 3 месяца назад

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.

@Lass412 3 месяца назад

now I want the Galapagos tortoise part narrated by ZeFrank for some reason

@sellmoon 3 месяца назад

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!

@andrewbroughton2004 3 месяца назад

Love that you used the bassoon solo from 'Rite of Spring' for the gibbons' strange calls

@scoutgaming737 3 месяца назад

The chimpanzees acted just like humans

@_ayohee 3 месяца назад

Makes a surprising amount of sense. They’re our closest species, IIRC

@starmaker75 3 месяца назад

Well we shared like 95-97% of their DNA/genes

@gladoseon4117 3 месяца назад

@@starmaker75it’s more like 98.5-99.2%

@whatabouttheearth 3 месяца назад

iF wE caMe FrOm cHimPs ThAn WhY ArE tHeR sTiLl MoNkEeeZ? 😖🥴😵‍💫

@hedgehog3180 3 месяца назад

@@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.

@trashcatlinol Месяц назад

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.

@cannedfonik8790 Месяц назад

Who else just saw the eclipse?

@byrongordon1520 Месяц назад

Me! But I only got 90%. (Do not find my location)

@thatkindofguy2253 Месяц назад

I got 99%, but I didn't get to see it completely cover the sun because I was in class.

@prisfb Месяц назад

I saw the totally in Toledo Ohio. It was a surreal experience!

@core943 2 месяца назад

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

@thatspottedowlgal9086 3 месяца назад

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. :)

@Nstone53 3 месяца назад

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.

@darkhawk574 2 месяца назад

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

@LordRazer3 3 месяца назад

Turtle: OH NO THE WORLD IS ENDING!...QUICK LETS BANG!

@bethanyhaffey975 Месяц назад

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.

@werothegreat 3 месяца назад

Don't think I didn't notice the monkeys singing the bassoon solo from Rite of Spring lol

@atomicmrpelly 3 месяца назад

I was going to comment on the fact that they were singing in tenor clef, didn't even notice what the notes were!

@wesleyhart1950 3 месяца назад

As someone who can’t read sheet music, thank you for sharing that little Easter egg with the rest of us 🥚 🌟

@-Atme 2 месяца назад

0:17 LINK!?!?

@tbbbo 3 месяца назад

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)

@williamwilson6499 3 месяца назад

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.

@HedgieMaster05 3 месяца назад

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!

@antonk.653 3 месяца назад

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.

@yourcrazybear 3 месяца назад

"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.

@antonk.653 3 месяца назад

@@yourcrazybear Okay, I found another weird one.

@yourcrazybear 3 месяца назад

@@antonk.653 "Okay, I found another weird one" Personal attacks are never valid arguments. Try again.

@antonk.653 3 месяца назад

@@yourcrazybear But humor is. Because I am not going to argue against you if you misconstruct my argument.

@yourcrazybear 3 месяца назад

@@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.

@Smashaholic Месяц назад

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!

@dxxgx6713 3 месяца назад

90% of video: we dont know much about animal behaviour during eclipses

@IDreamOfCrafting 3 месяца назад

I took a vacation day to experience the solar ellipse. I'm super excited.

@malhawkeye6427 3 месяца назад

This was an amazing video! I am so happy I found this!

@southernmermaid2526 Месяц назад

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!!! 🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌕

@BLOODKINGbro 3 месяца назад

At the end of this study I realized that nature is simply weird and unexpected.

@BlueBerry20071 3 месяца назад

The moment the sun gets blocked out, the animals just hear "It's going to be a terrible night..."

@Americanbadashh 3 месяца назад

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

@b3llm0th Месяц назад

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!

@Ice12287 3 месяца назад

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

@j.j.5731 2 месяца назад

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.

@spencereades 3 месяца назад

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.

@liizs2863 3 месяца назад

Its going to pass right over me! So exciting, I have a reminder on my phone set for April 8th.

@tinydancer6095 3 месяца назад

Who else is excited for the one in a few months ?!

@Jiroku7501 3 месяца назад

For once I’m glad to live in Ohio

@julianbartholomewnavarro912 Месяц назад

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”

@progidy7 3 месяца назад

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!"

@nathickman2246 3 месяца назад

The baboons singing the Rite of Spring Passage is appreciated. As a bassoon player, I feel seen and heard

@LFTRnow 3 месяца назад

1:38 - What happened to the eyes of the Chimpanzees that stared at the sky (with the eclipse going on)?

@MrT------5743 3 месяца назад

If it was at totality, nothing would happen to their eyes.

@Shrooblord 3 месяца назад

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.

@Michaelonyoutub 3 месяца назад

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.

@sophiedowney1077 3 месяца назад

Are you a park ranger or something? That must be a cool job, working somewhere remote like that.

@lsedge7280 3 месяца назад

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.

@saulshelly6174 3 месяца назад

I don’t know where I would be without these videos from Minute earth Science is just part of my personality thank you entire MinuteEarth team for giving us these videos Each one of their videos makes every persons day a bit brighter. It also makes the Earth a bit happier too.❤️

@ForALittleSupport 3 месяца назад

I heard a certain species pulls out some kind of photographing equipment and they all keep pointing it at it

@Banana_Slugcat 3 месяца назад

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*

@Krilliam 3 месяца назад

I was looking for this comment

@VenomQuill 3 месяца назад

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!

@alansmithee419 3 месяца назад

0:25: "Hey the sky's gone dark all of a sudden." "What should we do?" "idk... orgy?" "I'm in. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"

@gyrofrank Месяц назад

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". ... (Sam O'Nella semi quote)

@Mythis1 2 месяца назад

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.

@elainebenes7971 3 месяца назад

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.

@HowlingWolves Месяц назад

watching this during solar eclipse 2024 making me an astronomer

@sussyslurp 3 месяца назад

yt makes me sad nowadays, the design and music here are very comforting and I hope more of my recommended is like this 👍

@deserttortoise21 3 месяца назад

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.

@xVoidCypher 2 месяца назад

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?

@golddog8221 Месяц назад

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

@oopsy444 Месяц назад

by far the weirdest animal's reaction to the eclipse throughout history has been humans

@Freelix2000 2 месяца назад

Tortoises response: "well this is it baby. Hold me."

@QuantumHistorian 3 месяца назад

Love how the video concludes by slamming down hard, if politely, on well-intentioned but poorly-executed science

@personofpowera.b.c990 3 месяца назад

My school is doing a field trip for this! I’m so excited 😆

@casedistorted 2 месяца назад

“Saw first total eclipse in 2017” Jesus how young are you? Making me feel old that I saw one as a kid in the 1990’s..

@RickyDMons6251 23 дня назад

1:35 I appreciate the rite of spring reference on the Gibbons' drawing!

@InanisNihil Месяц назад

Non human animals: weirdest thing humans do.. stand still and stare into the sky?!

@Towalak 3 месяца назад

Imagine there being a solar eclipse, but you have to watch tortoises mate and take notes, for science

@danielhallback 2 месяца назад

I watched the 2007 eclipse from a zoo in South Carolina! I’m excited for April 8th!

@dyleldershaw6823 3 месяца назад

that rite of spring reference was so good bro

@lilymanders5178 3 месяца назад

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.

@ihatesnakeu.7238 3 месяца назад

Torts taking going out with a bang serious

@Goldenzeno 3 месяца назад

Ever heard of the eclipse from berserk

@JerryAss 3 месяца назад

Chimps bout to use behelit to achieve its dream after been captured by chimp king.

@Kevin80237 3 месяца назад

Gus berk

@alexandernweze8658 2 месяца назад

@@JerryAss *CHIMPIIIIIIIIIIIITH!!!!*

@Bonniethebunny Месяц назад

The birds were silent during the eclipse here. And one of our cats just kept begging to be let outside.

@Shrooblord 3 месяца назад

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

@__________________________hi52 Месяц назад

Birds: “Y’all it’s night let’s fly back to nest” “That was quick”

@Willcaballero Месяц назад

I love how eclipses trick baboons into singing the opening to The Rite of Spring.

@LeoAngora 3 месяца назад

I once saw a cat taking out a telescope during a solar eclipse to demonstrate that gravity bends light. No, wait, that was a scientist.

@mathieuleader8601 3 месяца назад

it will be interesting to see the results of this study

@EnraEnerato 3 месяца назад

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.

@destroyerdog 6 дней назад

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.

@W4LTERED-cw8su 3 месяца назад

Imagine seeing turtles doing the deed while ur watching a solar eclipse

@JerryCan101 3 месяца назад

Good channel 👍

@radioheadtv3131 Месяц назад

My ma said that she had chickens and when the eclipse happen in the 80s or 70s in Mexico City, they tried to go to sleep haha

@MaxArceus 3 месяца назад

2:02 "Specific places can go north of 100 years without a total eclipse! Last total solar eclipse in the Netherlands: May 11, 1901 Next total solar eclipse in the Netherlands Oct 2135 Last one was nearly a century before I was born, next one is more than a century away still. You mffs in the US get like 3 intersecting paths of totality in a decade time. It's not fair.

@MinuteEarth 3 месяца назад

we're making a video about this unfairness right now!

@MaxArceus 3 месяца назад

@@MinuteEarth Nice, I'll be sure to watch it; though, not gonna lie, I'd rather watch a total solar eclipse here :P