{"id":8049,"date":"2009-07-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/23\/when-birds-stopped-chirping-and-tigers-slept\/"},"modified":"2009-07-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T12:00:00","slug":"when-birds-stopped-chirping-and-tigers-slept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/23\/when-birds-stopped-chirping-and-tigers-slept\/","title":{"rendered":"When Birds Stopped Chirping And Tigers Slept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/008200907221721.htm\">www.hindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 23, 2009: Changes in behavior in animals and birds were recorded by experts at the Van Vihar National Park in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh during the total solar eclipse Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is for the first time in this country that we studied animal behavior during a solar eclipse. And much to our amazement, many animals behaved unusually &#8212; some got very dull while some were hyper-active as the sky darkened Wednesday morning,&#8221; S.S. Rajput, director of the Van Vihar National Park, told IANS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Herbivorous animals, who generally graze separately during the day, suddenly came together in a herd and stood stationary during the eclipse. Even the birds that were chirping since dawn suddenly quietened between 6.20 and 6.30 a.m.,&#8221; Rajput observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.hindu.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 23, 2009: Changes in behavior in animals and birds were recorded by experts at,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}