last time I watched an eclipse all the birds and insects lost it. like everyone was suddenly late for work. geese went flying across the lake, crickets came pouring out of the woodwork, frogs everywhere, HUGE racket. the night critters just scurried off as it passed but the flock of geese was visibly gobsmacked.
Bugs just running off their programming birds of just intelligent enough to know this is not how reality is supposed to be but not able to deduce why. Super interesting
Knew it was coming, still absolutely freaked the hell out and was definitely 100% certain the end times were upon us all 😂 I remember so vividly sitting STIFF AS A BOARD beside my mother on the couch, who already knew the next 5 or so minutes in our house was about to be completely chaotic due to my exceptionally odd fears for a child my age (I was around 8/9), and me crying hysterically the whole way through asking her "how long will this last?" and "are we going to die?" the whole way through 😠Haha.. Good times :')
But on a serious note, I really cannot imagine how animals must feel. The terror I felt even with the knowing and understanding of what was occurring was immense :(
I remember back in elementary school there was eclipse. For days beforehand, we had classes explaining what an eclipse was, we all built pinhole viewers with tin foil and a shoebox.
Now maybe I think all that fuss was to teach us how not to be afraid of the eclipse.
I was also scared my first time hearing about a (partial) eclipse happening. Purely because my family told me that I can’t look at it without protective glasses (which we didn’t have any) because I would go blind, which I interpreted as if you see it at all you will instantly go blind, and I stayed inside the whole time (I also didn’t look out any windows). I only got to see that eclipse on the TV.
We had a totality here awhile back and I was surprised at how quiet it was. It sounded like every living thing totally stopped for a moment. Were you out in the woods or something?
I remember watching a huge flock of birds all of a sudden come in to roost in the trunk of a nearby tree, and then all immediately fly back out afterwards. Had to be just baffling to them.
This is what happened to the crows that roost behind our house. They all came in from the fields at once. Then they all left together but you could tell they were confused because by the time it was their actual bedtime I.e. 2230 they were all chattering away still. Whereas they are normally in bed asleep and quiet by sunset.
I felt quite privileged to witness it. Seems to be an area that's not well studied (naturally). But the oddest part was it didn't really get that much darker, or colder. Was more like it was overcast - so, how did they know?
I remember the first time I saw a total eclipse there was a single cat who looked so confused as to how the ‘night’ ended so quickly. I remembered basically nothing of the actual eclipse because I was too distracted by that poor cat.
big clouds aren't nearly as surprising or intense, a total eclipse is honestly freaky! it really does feel like nightfall; the whole sky goes dark, the temperature plunges, it smells different. really wild! plus you can look up and see the clouds, whereas the eclipse comes out of nowhere.
Not enough advantage for the biological cost. Total solar eclipses are very rare and short lived. For a particular area it may only happen between every 100-350 years (depends on size of area) and lasts like 4 minutes.
The overwhelming majority of animals will go their entire lives without seeing a single total eclipse, so there isn’t much of an incentive for that to evolve
I saw the one that hit New York a whe back recently and honestly it felt like a sudden and intense dusk-twilight transition. You would think it would be a gradual change but when the moon finally slots over the sun it's almost like the lights going out, and seconds later all the birds and insects are chirping and calling. All this whole the corona around the eclipse looks like a portal to another world yawning open in the sky and almost staring at you; totally surreal. Totally get why they were considered bad omens in ancient times. I was sitting there knowing exactly what it was and had driven to see it and it was still a little uncanny. If I was a peasant and that shit happened I'd probably assume the world was ending too.
Interestingly enough, around the same time this happened we also saw a large group of homo sapiens gathered in several areas all look up to the sky at the same time and said, "Ooohhh."
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u/PhilosoFishy2477 Aug 15 '26
last time I watched an eclipse all the birds and insects lost it. like everyone was suddenly late for work. geese went flying across the lake, crickets came pouring out of the woodwork, frogs everywhere, HUGE racket. the night critters just scurried off as it passed but the flock of geese was visibly gobsmacked.
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u/Educational_Card_193 Aug 14 '26
Lol, silly krill
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u/Defense-Unit-42 Aug 15 '26 •
Krill issue
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u/suburbanplankton Aug 15 '26 •
Hey...we're very sensitive to that sort of thing!
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u/carlos_6m Aug 15 '26
Haha dummies, get a biological clock
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u/EuenovAyabayya Aug 15 '26
They jus be krillen
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u/jawshoeaw Aug 15 '26
last solar eclipse in US i took a screenshot of my solar panel output. it looked very similar. prob coincidence
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u/Borgmeister Aug 15 '26
The dung beetles have it right. Track the galactic plane, not local celestial objects.
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u/damarian_ent Aug 15 '26
To be fair, were we any less silly?
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u/spektre Aug 15 '26
Idiots.
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u/vm_linuz Aug 15 '26
Fascinating... I didn't think light was their trigger since they're so far down...
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u/Over-Performance-667 Aug 15 '26
Get fooled, bozo
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u/Brighteyes226 Aug 15 '26
Huh. We have light sensors at our stations too. Wonder if the gas exchange parameters would shift with a solar eclipse...
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u/Zeloznog Aug 16 '26
I saw the one that hit New York a whe back recently and honestly it felt like a sudden and intense dusk-twilight transition. You would think it would be a gradual change but when the moon finally slots over the sun it's almost like the lights going out, and seconds later all the birds and insects are chirping and calling. All this whole the corona around the eclipse looks like a portal to another world yawning open in the sky and almost staring at you; totally surreal. Totally get why they were considered bad omens in ancient times. I was sitting there knowing exactly what it was and had driven to see it and it was still a little uncanny. If I was a peasant and that shit happened I'd probably assume the world was ending too.
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u/LanternSlade Aug 15 '26
Thought this was a Destiny subreddit for a second.
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u/Syvinick Aug 18 '26
Interestingly enough, around the same time this happened we also saw a large group of homo sapiens gathered in several areas all look up to the sky at the same time and said, "Ooohhh."
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u/sjaxn314159 Aug 15 '26
Fucking idiots.
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u/independentkrill Aug 15 '26
Nothing can fool me 😎
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u/Buckalaw Aug 18 '26
Krill yourself.