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Twice a month, Brennan’s Pub in Los Angeles attracts enormous crowds of punters, who gather in an amphitheater-style circle in the outdoor area to watch a peculiar sport: turtle-racing.

The bar, located in between Venice and Marina Del Rey, has been hosting the events since 1975, describing the amphibious spectacle as “the sport of kings”. The “athletes” are kept in a terrarium connected to the venue, and brought out for the shows.

During the

On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse shrouded The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, South Carolina, in near-total darkness for 2½ minutes.

In the time leading up to the darkness, during it, and after, zoo personnel observed and documented the behavior of many of the animals to see if the meteorological event would spark any changes. Oh did it.

Three female gorillas approached the den enclosure entrance as if it was time to go in for the evening, while the one male gorilla became unusually aggressive. The seven giraffes all stopped eating to huddle at the back of their

When a total solar eclipse* transforms day into night, will tortoises start acting romantic? Will giraffes gallop? Will anyone sing odd notes?

Researchers will be standing by to observe how animals’ routines at Fort Worth Zoo in Texas are disrupted* when skies fall on April 8. They previously detected other strange animal behavior in 2017 at a South Carolina zoo that was in the path of total darkness.

“To our astonishment, most of the animals did surprising things,” said North Carolina State University researcher Dr Adam Hartstone-Rose, who led the observations published in the journal Animals.

While there are many