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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. 3 Winter Sleep Problems & How to Fix Them - AOL

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    Winter brings less daylight and colder temperatures, which can disrupt sleep. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is more common in winter due to the lack of sunlight, causing sleep disturbances.

  5. Crepuscular animal - Wikipedia

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    Some crepuscular animals may also be active by moonlight or during an overcast day. Matutinal animals are active only after dawn, and vespertine only before dusk. A number of factors affect the time of day an animal is active. Predators hunt when their prey is available, and prey try to avoid the times when their principal predators are at large.

  6. What happens at Binder Park Zoo during the winter? - AOL

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    Binder Park Zoo may be closed to the public for the season, but care for its animal residents doesn’t end when the snow starts to fall. A Linne's Two-Toed Sloth rests at Binder Park Zoo on ...

  7. These are the animals other than Punxsutawney Phil that will ...

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    Scramble's owners say he is the most accurate animal at predicting winter's end, with a 100% success rate. Cape Coral, Florida will celebrate its seventh annual Ground Owl Day on Feb. 2, honoring ...

  8. Hibernation - Wikipedia

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    This is true for all clades of animals that undergo winter dormancy; the more prominent the seasons are, the longer the dormant period tends to be on average. Hibernation of endothermic animals has likely evolved multiple times, at least once in mammals—though it is debated whether or not it evolved more than once in mammals—and at least ...

  9. 'Move, change or die': How these animals adapt and survive ...

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    Sleeping the season away. If an animal’s physiology, diet, or other characteristics don’t allow it to stay warm and/or find sufficient food during the winter, an additional set of survival ...