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Solar
eclipse changes behaviour of tigers in Bhopal's Van Vihar National Park
Bhopal: As the longest total solar eclipse of
the 21st century passed through India on Wednesday, wildlife officials of a zoological
park in Bhopal said they witnessed a change in the behaviour of zoo tigers. Wildlife
officials at the Van Vihar National Park, who for the past seven days were keeping
a close watch on the animals to analyse the impact of eclipse on them, said that
during the eclipse period, the tigers behaved differently. "Before the eclipse,
the behaviour of tigers became like that in the night, when they are quite. Our
tigress, which usually used to make noise after every five minutes during the
day-time, was absolutely quite. The tigers were doing the activities, which they
do before retiring for the night," said S. S. Rajput, director, forest department.
The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century was visible in a roughly 250
km-wide corridor, according to the U.S. space agency NASA, as it travels half
the globe and passes through the world's two most populous nations, India and
China. The eclipse began at 5:28 a.m. in India and was there for a maximum of
6 minutes, 39 seconds. -July
22, 2009 Go
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