What about the animals?

Here in France they gathered a group of animals together on some high ground. They were farm animals, about a dozen of them, with their hay and little pens. A lot of people came and looked at them. It was anything but an ordinary day for the animals, because they were being poked and prodded in a manner that they probably weren't used to on an ordinary day on the farm. Anyway, when darkness fell, people were moved away from the animals because there was a feeling that they might behave oddly, might even be dangerous. But I have to say nothing much happened at all.

During the eclipse, it gets quite grey, like early dawn. It isn't as dark as the middle of the night.

The owl didn't wake up at all! He knew it wasn't night time.

I talked to a vet afterwards who said that the result of the experiment was that animals do not behave oddly in eclipses. He said that all the reports saying that they do was mistaken. Certainly, from the point of view of this experiment in northern France, the lesson of the day is that animals do not do anything strange. There is a bigger question mark, I guess though, about the humans. Some of them behaved very strangely!