We went to the Columbus Zoo in Ohio to watch the solar eclipse with the animals. They were pretty chill about the whole thing.
The sun disappeared above the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium for a little over two minutes, and the animals remained chill. Chiller than the humans, even: if the leopards, elephants and sloth bears assumed it was a sign of the apocalypse, as some people apparently did, they never showed it. They mostly just hung out, as animals tend to do—Nature’s Bros, but without all the bullshit.
The lions and giraffes had the day off, with their part of the zoo closed to guests. Elsewhere a plump gray langur sat undisturbed on a tree branch, seemingly possessed with all the wisdom of the universe; if it could speak its voice would almost definitely be Frank Oz’s. Above the sun was half gone, the bottom coin in a stack of two. I stared into the langur’s eyes; I wasn’t worthy of receiving whatever knowledge it had to share.
Sheryl Crow and guest vocalist Liz Phair were telling everyone to lighten up as I approached Kangaroo Station a few minutes before the time of totality. A wooden kangaroo boasted that it can jump up to 30 feet on a sign outside the enclosure. This was a popular spot to see the total eclipse, probably because it was about as close to actual animals as one could get at the zoo.
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