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Explanation:How do animals react to atotal solar eclipse?
Thefeatured imageshows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of therecent total solar eclipse.
If you are lucky enough to experience a total eclipse somewhere quiet and close to nature, you may be able to notice unusual daytimeanimal behaviors.
During totality, you may hearnighttime soundslike crickets and frogs and seefireflies.
In the dark, most birds arequiet.
Thinking that it is time to go to bed, ducks and other waterfowl prepare to sleep on one leg, with their heads turned around and their beaks tucked into their back feathers.
Whensunlight returnsat the end of totality, songbirds greet the new “morning” with their dawnsongs.
The crickets and frogs goquietagain.
Animals and people resume their lifes, only briefly disturbed by thechance alignmentof our SunandMoon.
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