Nocturnal. Nocturnal behavior means the animal is active at night, which some people believe is the deer’s sleep pattern. Diurnal. Diurnal sleep and waking patterns mean the creature is most ...

Nocturnal animals are fascinating creatures. This wild member of the dog family can often be seen in the countryside at night ...

Eclipses can fool certain animals into thinking that it’s the evening, causing them to to revert to their nocturnal or crepuscular behaviors. For example, in 1932, researchers observed crickets ...

Diurnal bees tend to exhibit high spatial resolution and acuity, enabling fine discrimination of colour and patterns, while nocturnal bees display remarkable adaptations for low‐light ...

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