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  2. List of nocturnal animals - Wikipedia

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    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. Matutinal, a classification of organisms that are only or primarily active in the pre-dawn hours or early night.

  3. List of animals by number of legs - Wikipedia

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    Four classes of arthropods each provide multiple examples, including sea spiders (with 4 to 6 leg pairs, [11] providing two examples) and pauropods (adults with 8 to 11 leg pairs, [12] providing four examples), but most of the examples listed are either millipedes (adults with 11 to 653 leg pairs) [5] [1] or centipedes (adults with 15 to 191 ...

  4. Sleep in animals - Wikipedia

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    Sleep can follow a physiological or behavioral definition. In the physiological sense, sleep is a state characterized by reversible unconsciousness, special brainwave patterns, sporadic eye movement, loss of muscle tone (possibly with some exceptions; see below regarding the sleep of birds and of aquatic mammals), and a compensatory increase following deprivation of the state, this last known ...

  5. Crepuscular animal - Wikipedia

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    Its sense accordingly differs from diurnal and nocturnal behavior, which respectively peak during hours of daytime and night. The distinction is not absolute, because crepuscular animals may also be active on a bright moonlit night or on a dull day. Some animals casually described as nocturnal are in fact crepuscular. [2]

  6. 101 Animals That Start With 'S' for Your Next Trivia Night - AOL

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    10. Skunk. These animals have a superpower—they can spray a stinky liquid from their tail that helps them scare away predators. However, before they do, they usually give a warning that consists ...

  7. Aardvark - Wikipedia

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    They cover between 2 and 5 kilometres (1.2 and 3.1 mi) per night; however, some studies have shown that they may traverse as far as 30 kilometres (19 mi) in a night. [ 5 ] Aardvarks shift their circadian rhythms to more diurnal activity patterns in response to a reduced food supply.

  8. Is 5 hours of sleep at night enough? - AOL

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    Health impact of only sleeping 5 hours a night After sleeping five hours in one night, most people can catch up with one or two nights of sleeping their normal amount or a few hours extra, says Kolla.

  9. The best time to shave your legs is actually at night - AOL

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    By Buzz60. There may be a reason as to why shaving your legs never really turned into a job well done. As it turns out, you should have been shaving them at night.