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  2. Diurnality - Wikipedia

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    Steppe eagles are diurnal, and hunt during the day. Humans are diurnal, and organize their work and business mainly in the day. [a]Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.

  3. Randy Gardner sleep deprivation experiment - Wikipedia

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    Randy Gardner (born c. 1946) is an American man from San Diego, California, who once held the record for the longest amount of time a human has gone without sleep.In December 1963/January 1964, 17-year-old Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 24 minutes (264.4 hours), breaking the previous record of 260 hours held by Tom Rounds.

  4. Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel) - Wikipedia

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    From what can be drawn from the text, Onos, the star appearing brightest and largest in Lagash's sky, is the star that Lagash orbits. Onos, in turn, orbits around the binary system Trey and Patru, the other binary system Tano and Sitha, and the red dwarf star Dovim. In addition to these stars, the only other celestial object mentioned is Lagash ...

  5. Night vision - Wikipedia

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    This is found in many nocturnal animals and some deep sea animals, and is the cause of eyeshine. Humans, and monkeys, lack a tapetum lucidum. [8] [9] The pupil of the eye dilates in the dark to enhance night vision. Shown here is a pupil of an adult naturally dilated to 9 mm in diameter in mesopic light levels. The average human eye is not able ...

  6. Chronotype - Wikipedia

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    Humans are normally diurnal creatures that are active in the daytime. As with most other diurnal animals, human activity-rest patterns are endogenously regulated by biological clocks with a circadian (~24-hour) period. [citation needed] Chronotypes have also been investigated in other species, such as fruit flies [3] and mice. [4]

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  8. Night owl - Wikipedia

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    A Young Man Reading by Candlelight, Matthias Stom (ca. 1630). A night owl, evening person, or simply owl, is a person who tends or prefers to be active late at night and into the early morning, and to sleep and wake up later than is considered normal; night owls often work or engage in recreational activities late into the night (in some cases, until around dawn), and sleep until relatively ...

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