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  2. Crepuscular animal - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] Apart from the relevance to predation, crepuscular activity in hot regions also may be the most effective way of avoiding heat stress while capitalizing on available light. Crepuscular flight activity is preferred by some animals, such as the walnut twig beetle, due to warmer temperatures, moderate wind speeds, and low barometric ...

  3. Adaptation (eye) - Wikipedia

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    Night vision is of lower quality than day vision because it is limited in resolution and colors cannot be discerned; only shades of gray are seen. [1] In order for humans to transition from day to night vision they must undergo a dark adaptation period of up to two hours [ 2 ] in which each eye adjusts from a high to a low luminescence "setting ...

  4. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland as a studying tool to aid in memorization for his French class, which he claimed to have "aced". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [ 9 ]

  5. Nocturnality - Wikipedia

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    The kiwi is a family of nocturnal birds endemic to New Zealand.. While it is difficult to say which came first, nocturnality or diurnality, a hypothesis in evolutionary biology, the nocturnal bottleneck theory, postulates that in the Mesozoic, many ancestors of modern-day mammals evolved nocturnal characteristics in order to avoid contact with the numerous diurnal predators. [3]

  6. 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 ...

  7. Night vision - Wikipedia

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    Before the introduction of image intensifiers, night glasses were the only method of night vision, and thus were widely utilized, especially at sea. Second World War era night glasses usually had a lens diameter of 56 mm or more with magnification of seven or eight. Major drawbacks of night glasses are their large size and weight.

  8. Testing effect - Wikipedia

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    First, only the question is displayed. Then the answer is displayed too, for verification. The testing effect (also known as retrieval practice , active recall , practice testing , or test-enhanced learning ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] suggests long-term memory is increased when part of the learning period is devoted to retrieving information from ...

  9. Ma Nishtana - Wikipedia

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    (The last question is a reference to the paschal sacrifice which was fire-roasted). [2] The Babylonian Talmud quotes four questions; why matzah is eaten, why maror is eaten, why meat that is eaten is exclusively roasted, and why food is dipped twice. [3] The version in the Jerusalem Talmud is also the one most commonly found in manuscripts. [4]