For many animals, the solar eclipse this morning (Friday, March 20) will have appeared as a very short night/day cycle.
Birds may have tried to roost and others, like nocturnal owls, perhaps just slept through the short-lived period of darkness between 8.30 and 9.30am.
Rig-tailed lemurs at Chester Zoo, however, were as fascinated by the event as their human counterparts.
Tim Rowlands, curator of mammals, said: “The animals were as fascinated with the eclipse as we were. It was quite a sight to behold.”
