Arctic zooplankton take cover during full moon phases because the lunar light allows predators to hunt them, causing the zooplankton to time their feeding to the rising and setting of the Moon.

Authors

• Person: Megan Mulford Organization: Weatherology
  Wildlife Wednesdays: Odd Lunar Effects on Sea Animals

Sources

• Wildlife Wednesdays: Odd Lunar Effects on Sea Animals weatherology.com Megan Mulford · Weatherology via serper

Referenced by nodes (5)

• Arctic location
• moon concept
• full-moon concept
• zooplankton concept
• predators concept