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

[Judi Lynn]

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

[Warpy]

1. Some of them get confused

Birds go to nest with their heads under their wings while cicadas and crickets start to sing.

[sandensea]

2. It's a distinct possibility.

[procon]

3. I've had a lot of animals in my time, from a variety of barnyard critters

to lots of household companions. I can't ever recall seeing a single one of them lift their heads to ponder the moon, eclipse or otherwise.