Total solar eclipse: How animals react to daylight turning dark

Spoiler alert: Many animals do “surprising things” during a total solar eclipse.

For a few precious minutes on April 8, 2024, darkness will descend across the United States as a historic total solar eclipse crosses a wide swath of North America. For millions of people, daytime will briefly turn to night. But according to scientists, humans won’t be the only ones affected and reacting to the phenomenon in the sky.According to National Geographic, reports of unusual animal reactions to solar eclipses date back centuries.

Several other zoos along the path are also inviting visitors to help track animals, including zoos in Little Rock, Arkansas; Toledo, Ohio; and Indianapolis."It’s really high stakes. We have a really short period to observe them and we can’t repeat the experiment," said Jennifer Tsuruda, a University of Tennessee entomologist who observed honeybee colonies during the 2017 eclipse.

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