Nocturnal
Species active after dark, with senses adapted to low light.
What it means
Living by night demands different equipment: eyes with more light-sensitive cells, sharp hearing, a keen sense of smell, tactile whiskers or, in bats and some cetaceans, echolocation. In exchange you gain access to prey that stays hidden by day and avoid both the heat and the daytime predators. It is a pattern spread right across the tree of life, and it explains why many common animals are all but invisible to anyone walking about in daylight.
Species
Near ThreatenedJaguar
Panthera onca
EndangeredBengal Tiger
Panthera tigris tigris
VulnerableAfrican Leopard
Panthera pardus pardus
North Island Brown Kiwi
Apteryx mantelli
Virginia Opossum
Didelphis virginiana
Brush-tailed Bettong
Bettongia penicillata
Least ConcernGreater Horseshoe Bat
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
Large Flying-fox
Pteropus giganteus
Fat Dormouse
Glis glis
House Mouse
Mus musculus
Least ConcernWolverine
Gulo gulo
Least ConcernAfrican Civet
Civettictis civetta
Aardwolf
Proteles cristata
Near ThreatenedManed Wolf
Chrysocyon brachyurus
Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianus
Chinese Alligator
Alligator sinensis
Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake
Crotalus atrox
Terciopelo
Bothrops asper
White's Tree Frog
Litoria caerulea
Common Starfish
Asterias rubens
Least ConcernMidwife Toad
Alytes obstetricans
EndangeredTiger
Panthera tigris
Near ThreatenedEuropean Otter
Lutra lutra
Mauve Stinger
Pelagia noctiluca
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