we want to head over now to Little Rock Arkansas that's where National Climate reporter Chase Kane joins me live so Chase we know that you are at The Nature Conservancy in Little Rock talk to us about why you're there instead of some of the other uh viewing spots in Arkansas what would be special about that spot well I mean we see we have correspondence all through the eclipse path with lots of people around we thought let's show you something a little bit different let's be in nature because na
ture just like people is going to respond to the sudden darkness that lasts for a few minutes in the middle of the day so we're hoping that's going to be a pretty interesting experience in just a couple hours yeah we're hearing that sometimes maybe owls start hooting or frogs start croaking insects you know maybe that would normally make those sounds or have those reactions at night time do we think that might happen in the four minutes when the moon is you know in front of the sun yeah we're ho
ping that the birds the geese the frogs maybe are going to cooperate and give us a little bit of a show uh to talk about what we might expect we have Jason milks here with the nature conservancy a Forester a wildlife ecologist uh Jason we were chatting earlier you said there's basically four main categories of what nature might do during the eclipse talk us through that yeah there's been some research to show that what we might expect can break down into four broad categories one being nothing l
ike no one the animals don't care number two they might start uh performing some of their bedtime rituals moving back into the roof and whatnot uh a third could be anxiety particularly prey species unsure of whether this large Shadow is is prey moving on them or some other novel approach whether it's mating or weird noises or things of that nature so I think it's it'll be interesting to see what what actually plays out yeah bedtime might include mating for some species we were talking about bird
s um you know might be squawking sounding the alarm essentially to the forest of like hey why is it dark all of a sudden this isn't right um but also kind of an interesting experience I think for it's going to be both of our first total eclipse what what do you expect do you have any expectations yeah that's that's right I'm I my expectations are open I'm not exactly sure what it's going to be I'm looking forward to it appreciate the opportunity to to be here with you on it and yeah it'll be it'
s going to be exciting one way or the other lifetime changing experience potentially yeah we hope so and Jason also has his 12-year-old daughter out here with us so we will all be with you in just a couple of hours during our live special uh my first uh total CPS Vicki so I'm also pretty excited about how this is going to go and M maybe nature will also give us a little bit of a show in the process yeah we can't wait to hear what you experience Chase National Climate reporter Chase Kane live in
Arkansas Force thank you so much thanks for watching stay updated about breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or follow us on social media
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