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How Will the Solar Eclipse Affect Animals? NASA Needs Your Help to Find Out
NASA's Eclipse Soundscapes project will collect observations and soundscapes recorded by the public during the April 8 total solar eclipse.
We know that sunlight is a reliable environmental signal by which plants and animals regulate their biological clock, but how an eclipse affects this process isn't well documented. At that time, the Boston Natural History Society invited citizens, park rangers, and naturalists to report on the activities of birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, and fish during the summer eclipse of 1932. The design of the section of the study that will be fed with the data obtained by the collectors is supported by an advisory board that includes acoustic biologists and soundscape ecologists who will seek to answer two things.
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