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  2. Diurnality - Wikipedia

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    Both studies concluded that nocturnal mammals do change their activity patterns to be more diurnal when energetically stressed (due to heat loss and limited food availability), but only when predation is also limited, meaning the risks of predation are less than the risk of freezing or starving to death.

  3. Cathemerality - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, when there is a decrease in daylight hours and decreased sunset delay, afternoon activity begins later which, in turn, increases the amount of nocturnal activity. [7] Nocturnal luminosity influences the annual pattern of activity rhythms and affects both diurnal and nocturnal behaviour. [7]

  4. Crepuscular animal - Wikipedia

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    In zoology, a crepuscular animal is one that is active primarily during the twilight period, [1] being matutinal, vespertine/vespertinal, or both. This is distinguished from diurnal and nocturnal behavior, where an animal is active during the hours of daytime and of night, respectively.

  5. Nocturnality - Wikipedia

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    The common adjective is "nocturnal", versus diurnal meaning the opposite. Nocturnal creatures generally have highly developed senses of hearing , smell , and specially adapted eyesight . [ 1 ] Some animals, such as cats and ferrets , have eyes that can adapt to both low-level and bright day levels of illumination (see metaturnal ).

  6. Sleep in animals - Wikipedia

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    Nocturnal animals have higher body temperatures, greater activity, rising serotonin, and diminishing cortisol during the night—the inverse of diurnal animals. Nocturnal and diurnal animals both have increased electrical activity in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, and corresponding secretion of melatonin from the pineal gland, at night. [55]

  7. List of nocturnal animals - Wikipedia

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    Crepuscular, a classification of animals that are active primarily during twilight, making them similar to nocturnal animals. Diurnality, plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day and sleeping at night. Cathemeral, a classification of organisms with sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night.

  8. Strepsirrhini - Wikipedia

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    The early primates include both nocturnal and diurnal small-bodied species, [26] and all were arboreal, with hands and feet specially adapted for maneuvering on small branches. [27] Plesiadapiforms from the early Paleocene are sometimes considered "archaic primates", because their teeth resembled those of early primates and because they ...

  9. Matutinal - Wikipedia

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    It may be argued that if the goal is to avoid human activity, or any other diurnal predator's activity, a nocturnal schedule would be safer. However, many of these animals depend on sight, so a matutinal or crepuscular schedule is especially advantageous as it allows animals to both avoid predation, and have sufficient light to mate and forage. [4]