article_snippet: Animal behaviour experts had warned that this morning’s eclipse could make owls more alert, sheep feel sleepy and change the flight of moths.
article_snippet: went nuts’ or dog looked confused, some say pets and farm animals didn’t react at all to the astronomical phenomenon.
article_snippet: Brilliant #eclipse’, while Robert Thompson said: ‘the eclipse is weird even though cloudy the sky has almost a lilac haze, no birds flying have gone and the wind has stopped eerie out there.
article_snippet: Animals on farm are acting a bit weird #eclipse’.
article_snippet: Did anyone else's animals get proper weird over the eclipse?
article_snippet: Zoos in London, Chester and Edinburgh said that animals did not behave particularly strangely during the eclipse, but these lemurs at Chester Zoo, seem to be admiring the strange sight .
article_snippet: However, other pet owners were underwhelmed by other pet owners animals’ response to the partial eclipse.
article_snippet: Hand Troleman in Aberdeen, where the eclipse was meant to be more striking, tweeted:
article_snippet: ‘Not gonna lie was expecting more from the eclipse: total darkness, folk walking into lampposts, animals howling, the end times being upon us and Pokusevski's, a deli in Salford said: ‘total darkness, folk walking into lampposts, animals howling, the end times being upon us and Pokusevski's, a deli in Salford say animals can feel solar eclipse.
article_snippet: In 1973, researchers found that captive squirrels became restless in the run up to and during an eclipse.
article_snippet: During a 2001 solar eclipse in Africa, self-proclaimed eclipse chaser, Todd Thompson witnessed strange animal behaviour in Zambia.
article_snippet: Nocturnal animals become active [during an eclipse]: Owls hoot, bats fly, blackbirds sing like Nocturnal animals
article_snippet: Paul Murdin, visiting professor of Astronomy at Liverpool John Moores University, collected observations from 250 members of Wildlife and Environment Zimbabwe (WEZ) during the same eclipse.
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  Observations of previous eclipses said nocturnal animals such as owls  become more active, while daytime creatures went to sleep .