ABSTRACT
Solar eclipses are amazing to see but have little effect on peoples’ lives. People will flock to see them, but it is a short-term harmless event. Nevertheless, animals do seem to respond as the day goes dark and the air cools. This is a ‘here and now’ response and there is little evidence that animals are predicting the event. In a similar vein, the Northern Lights are amazing to see but there seems to be no evidence that animals can predict when they may happen. Modern technology, getting ever more expensive to build, can be used to observe the movement of the planets and moon, as well as predict the arrival of a solar storm, and hence the Northern Lights, for example with apps on a smartphone. Even if a chimpanzee points to an eclipse it does not mean there is a place here for observing of animals to predict such events.
