Meryl Horne

So in that case, the moon is like the meat of the sandwich and the earth and the sun are the bread.

I mean, it feels like maybe far-fetched at first, but if you think about it, we know that the moon affects other animals.

And, you know, it's funny, the one thing that everybody associates with the full moon, wolves howling, I actually couldn't find any evidence backing that up at all.

Oh, okay.

But what I do have for you is that coyotes will howl more together on a new moon night.

Oh!

That's what they sound like?

Yeah, kind of even creepier, right?

Like there are these coyotes that will like yip together in groups at the darkest time of the month.

Some owls will call out more when the moon is darker and badgers will pee more on stuff during a new moon.

But what about, wait, who's affected by the full moon?

I'm getting there.

All right, and then on full moon, some birds will hatch more around a full moon.

There is a little worm that does a mating dance that happens just after a full moon.

Corals release their spawns a few nights after a full moon, which is an incredible event that you can see from space.

And some primates, like nocturnal ones, will eat more during full moons.

And I even found this one reference from the 1800s where a scientist said that rhesus monkeys were at their most fertile during full moons.

So there are like all these ways that the moon is affecting animals.

Yeah, yeah.

So researchers have actually looked into this.