By Tia Ghose, Senior Writer | August
22, 2017 06:20pm ET
From flowers spontaneously
shutting their petals to hundreds of thousands of salmon washing ashore, the
eclipse yesterday (Aug. 21) had a downright spooky impact on nature, according
scientists observing the effects.
Several experimental projects
were aimed at recording the responses of animals to the eclipse, including the
iNaturalist app, which encouraged people to record observations during and
after totality, said Rebecca Johnson, citizen science research director at the
California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Johnson, along with
colleagues, helped spearhead the effort to gather these observations and sift
through them, once the sun had returned.
It turned out that the solar
eclipse didn't just make humans go crazy and indulge in odd behavior;
it also had a wide range of effects on animals and plants throughout the
natural world. From spooked horses to hungry fish, here are some of the most
interesting impacts of the eclipse on nature.
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