Posted on 08/04/2017 1:45:07 PM PDT by Libloather
KNOXVILLE (WATE) — While East Tennesseans are keeping an eye on the sky, there’s going to be plenty of action on the ground at Zoo Knoxville as the total solar eclipse passes through on August 21.
There are more than 700 animals at the zoo and staff plans to observe them during the time of totality. The phenomenon is raising questions like, how will animals react when their daily routines are driven by the cycles of night and day?
“We don’t know what’s going to happen,” said Phil Colclough, with Zoo Knoxville.
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They’ll lay down and go to sleep. Nothing to see here.
My bet is that they will all gather together and predict the next Solar Eclipse. Or, perhaps, discuss the “Obliquity of the Ecliptic!”
Those animals are smarter than we think...
Patiently waiting for the eclipse to inevitably be blamed on global warming.
I predict they will become sufficiently self-aware to register vote as democrats (won’t take much).
We’ll be camping along the Missouri River. Lots of birds to watch.
.....and birds will stop singing.
All this has all been seen and documented before.
Didn’t they just kill a significant number of reptiles at this zoo?
I know, that’s why I wrote it. Apparently the new newsies of today don’t know anything from their liberal colleges.
May I suggest observing human animals too?
Memphis and Baltimore might be interesting.
5.56mm
My wife and I will be camping at our favorite beach on the Oregon coast. Perhaps the seabirds will get noisy.
Dude(tte), the last total eclipse was like 17 MONTHS ago.
};^)
A Salvadoran news crew covered the zoo in San Salvador during their total eclipse in the early 90s. Nothing much happened with the animals but many campesinos were scared to leave their homes.
I watched that eclipse at the Beach: El Zunzal. Some rich people there had some special viewing material for looking directly at the eclipse...I still have pretty good vision so it must have been on the level.
LOL’s :) Ya, they have a short attention span; too busy trying to get whitey off campus’
Anything to justify one’s existence.
I was staring at the sun today in preparation for the eclipse. Well, it was through the 14 shade welding goggles I just bought.
In one of the past eclipses, that could be seen only in Mexico, a U.S. team went down there to observe it. One guy said that as soon as it got dark, all the day animals went to sleep and the night critters came out - lots of cricket chirping.
He mentioned that when the sun was blotted out, even though he was a modern man and one of science, he still had a sense of dread come over him. He thought if he was affected like that, it must have been sheer terror for many ancients.
ML/NJ
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