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Judi Lynn

(160,450 posts)
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 09:52 PM Aug 2017

Will The Upcoming Solar Eclipse Drive Animals to Totally Weird Behaviours?

Will The Upcoming Solar Eclipse Drive Animals to Totally Weird Behaviours?
Here's how you can help scientists gather data on this.

JASON BITTEL, THE WASHINGTON POST
8 AUG 2017

In 1994, Doug Duncan was standing on the Bolivian Altiplano with of group of fellow astronomers. The scientists had come to witness a total solar eclipse, and as such, most of their gazes were turned skyward as the totality approached.

That is, until a woman starting shouting, "Look down! Look down!"

"I can still hear her voice," said Duncan, the director of the Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado. "So, we look down and … llamas. Llamas all over the place."

They were surrounded by llamas - but not for long. After a few minutes, the moon's 70-mile-wide shadow passed on and light returned to the plateau, at which point the llamas formed a sort of procession and marched away.

More:
http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-need-your-help-do-eclipses-make-animals-weird

Science:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/122853061

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Will The Upcoming Solar Eclipse Drive Animals to Totally Weird Behaviours? (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2017 OP
Animals No. Humans Yes. Sneederbunk Aug 2017 #1
Beat me too it! Chasstev365 Aug 2017 #2
Dun-Dun-DUNNNNN! Dawn of the zombie apocalypse! longship Aug 2017 #3
Didn't you mean Alpacalypse? Marie Marie Aug 2017 #4
It could be beyond our wildest nightmares, if this newly-shaved alpaca is any example: Judi Lynn Aug 2017 #5
Yikes!!! Marie Marie Aug 2017 #6
OMG! What's going to happen to us? eCLIPse? Oh, no! Judi Lynn Aug 2017 #7

longship

(40,416 posts)
3. Dun-Dun-DUNNNNN! Dawn of the zombie apocalypse!
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 10:19 PM
Aug 2017

Keep your baseball bat handy. A big shotgun might be handy, too. Swing, shoot for the head.

Judi Lynn

(160,450 posts)
5. It could be beyond our wildest nightmares, if this newly-shaved alpaca is any example:
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:27 AM
Aug 2017


Must always carry your shovel around alpacas, for defense... it's those fangs that can rip you limb from limb.
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