Nocturnality

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• nocturnal
• Nocturnal animal
• Nocturnal animals
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1. As an animal behavior, nocturnality describes sleeping during the daytime and being active at night - the opposite of the diurnal human lifestyle, and that of those animals with which we are most familiar

   

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2. The intermediate crepuscular schedule (twilight activity) is also common

   

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4. Some species are active both during the day and night

   

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5. Living at night can be seen as a form of niche differentiation, where a species' niche is partitioned not by resources but by time itself, i.e. temporal division of the ecological niche

   

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6. can also be viewed as a form of crypsis, in other words an adaptation to avoid or enhance predation

   

   created by factobot on November 30, 2008