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Birds, bees and even plants might act weird during the solar eclipse
A total eclipse isn’t just a spectacle in the sky. Birds, insects and even plants will take notice, and might start acting strange.
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Total Eclipse of the Zoo: Animal Behavior during a Total Solar Eclipse
The infrequency of a total solar eclipse renders the event novel to those animals that experience its effects and, consequently, may induce anomalous behavioral responses …
Foraging and homing behavior of honey bees (Apis mellifera) during a total solar eclipse
Exceptional natural phenomena, such as those that occur during a total solar eclipse, provide unique opportunities to study animal behavior outside the naturally evolved …
Effect of solar eclipse on the behavior of a captive group of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
A captive group of chimpanzees, housed in an outdoor compound at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, was observed during the annular solar eclipse of May 30, 198 …
Aeroecology of a solar eclipse
Light cues elicit strong responses from nearly all forms of life, perhaps most notably as circadian rhythms entrained by periods of daylight and darkness. Atypical period …
Hydraulic and photosynthetic responses of big sagebrush to the 2017 total solar eclipse
The total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 created a path of totality ~115 km in width across the United States. While eclipse observations have shown distinct responses …
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