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Nocturnal Animals

Nocturnal animals are more active at night than during the day. These animals sleep during the day, often in a burrow or den. Many animals, like desert animals, are nocturnal in order to escape extreme daytime heat.

Special Adaptations: Nocturnal animal have special adaptations that help them survive in the dark. Many nocturnal animals, like owls, lemurs and cats, have special eyes that see well in the dark. Some nocturnal animals, like bats, use echolocation, in which the animal emits a high-pitched sound which bounces off objects; the sound is then received by the animal, giving it information about the object's shape, direction, distance, and texture. Other nocturnal animals (like rabbits) have good hearing.

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Nocturnal Animals Calendar Print and color this calendar.	Nocturnal Definition - Multiple Choice Comprehension Quiz Answer 8 multiple-choice questions on the definition of nocturnal; a lesson in using a dictionary. Go to the answers.	Amur Tiger The largest member of the cat family, also known as the Siberian tiger.	Aardvark Aardvarks are large mammals that eat ants.
Alligator Alligators are large, meat-eating reptiles.	Anaconda The biggest snake in the world.	Angelshark Bottom-dwelling, relatively harmless sharks with flattened bodies and a blunt snout.	Aye-aye A strange primate from Madagascar.
Badger The badger is a nocturnal mammal with a black-and-white striped face.	Bat Bats are the only flying mammal.	Bandicoot Bandicoots are marsupials with pointy snouts.	Bilby The bilby (also known as the rabbit-eared bandicoot) is a small marsupial with long ears.
Binturong A dark, furry mammal from southeast Asia.	Black-Footed Ferret The Black-Footed Ferret is an endangered type of ferret.	Boa Constrictor A large constricting snake from South and Central America.	Bobcat A fierce, short-tailed wild cat from North America.
Caiman The caiman is a meat-eating reptile from South and Central America.	Cat Cats are mammals and are great pets.	Coelacanth The Coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-canth) is a primitive fish that was thought to have been extinct for millions of years, but a living Coelacanth was caught in 1938.	Coypu Coypus (also called nutrias) are semi-aquatic rodents that are originally from South America.
Cricket Crickets are jumping insects.	Crocodile Crocodiles are meat-eating reptiles with a long, tapered snout.	Cuttlefish Cuttlefish are cephalopods with relatively short legs, a fin along the entire mantle, and an internal cuttlebone.	Darkling Beetle Life Cycle Label Me! Printout Label the life cycle of the yellow mealworm, from egg to larva to pupa to adult. Or go to the answers.
Dingo The dingo is a wild dog from Australia.	Fennec Fox The Fennec fox is a small, desert fox with very large ears; it lives in the Sahara and in northern Saudi Arabia.	Firefly The firefly (also known as the lightning bug) is a luminescent flying insect.	Flying Squirrel A squirrel that glides from trees, using a loose flap of skin.

Fossa The fossa is a meat-eating mammal from the island of Madagascar.	Fox The fox is a meat-eating mammal with a long, bushy tail.	Fruit Bat Fruit bats are large bats that eat fruits and flowers.	Gerbil The gerbil is a small, long-tailed rodent that is native to dry, sandy areas of Africa and Asia.
Gila Monster A venomous lizard from deserts of southwestern North America.	Great Horned Owl A large bird of prey from North and South America.	Grizzly Bear The Grizzly Bear is a large bear with a muscular hump on its shoulders.	Hedgehog Hedgehogs are small mammals that can roll into a prickly ball.
Hippopotamus The hippopotamus is a large mammal that stays in the water a lot.	Horseshoe Crab The horseshoe crab is a hard-shelled animal that lives in warm coastal waters on the sea floor.	Jaguar The jaguar is a large, spotted wild cat from South and Central America.	Jerboa The jerboa is a small, long-tailed rodent that hops.
Kakapo A large, flightless, nocturnal, solitary parrot from New Zealand.	Kangaroo Kangaroos hop and have pouches. Many kangaroos are nocturnal.	Kangaroo Rat A small rodent from North America.	Kinkajou A long-tailed, nocturnal mammal from rainforests in the Americas.
Kiwi A chicken-sized flightless bird from New Zealand.	Koala The koala is an Australian marsupial. It is not a bear.	Koala Read and Answer Quiz Take a quiz on the koala; read the text, then answer the questions. Or go to the answers .	Leopard Leopards are widely-distributed, spotted wild cats.
Lemon Shark Large, yellowish predators found near the surface and at intermediate depths.	Lightning Bug The lightning bug (also known as the firefly) is a luminescent flying insect.	Lion A group of lions is called a pride.	Lobster A hard-shelled marine invertebrate with 10 jointed legs.

Loris Large-eyed primates from Southeast Asia.	Luna Moth A green moth with long hindwing tails and distinctive eyespots.	Lynx A powerful wild cat from Eurasia and North America.	Darkling Beetle Life Cycle The yellow mealworm is the larval stage of the darkling beetle (Tenebrio molitor).
Megamouth A large, filter-feeding shark that was only discovered in 1976.	Millipede Segmented plant-eaters with many, many legs.	Millipede Anatomy: Label Me! Label the external anatomy of the millipede. Answers	Morganucodon An early mammal from about 200 million years ago.
Moray Eel Printout Long, snake-like fish that have circular gills.	Mouse Mice are cute, small rodents with long tails. Many mice are nocturnal or partly nocturnal.	Muskrat Muskrats are rodents that often build dome-shaped houses.	Naked Mole-Rat Small, almost hairless rodents who live in underground colonies in Africa.
Northern Fur Seal The Northern Fur Seal is a marine mammal that lives in the northern Pacific Ocean.	Nurse Shark A large bottom-dweller with rounded fins.	Nutria Nutrias (also called coypus) are semi-aquatic rodents that are originally from South America.	Ocelot Ocelots are wild cats from the Americas.
Okapi The Okapi is a nocturnal, giraffe-like mammal from African rainforests.	Opossum The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial in North America. Over 64 species of opossum are found in South America.	Owl Owls are nocturnal hunters with eyes that face forwards. Or go to an owl quiz -- or go to the answers.	Pangolin The pangolin is an insect-eating mammal that has protective scales on its body.
Quoll The Quoll is a cat-sized carnivorous marsupial from the islands of Tasmania and mainland Australia.	Raccoon The raccoon is a mammal with mask-like markings on its face and a ringed tail.	Rat The rat is a rodent with a long tail and a pointed snout. Many rats are nocturnal.	Rattlesnake Rattlesnakes are poisonous snakes that have a rattle at the end of the tail.
Red-Eyed Tree Frog A rainforest frog with bright red eyes.	Red Fox The Red Fox is a meat-eating mammal with a long, bushy tail.	Red Kangaroo Red Kangaroos are large roos from Australia.	Ringtail Possum A small, nocturnal plant-eating marsupial with long tail.
River Otter River otters are streamlined, aquatic mammals from North America.	Sandtiger Shark (Sand Shark) A shark that is cannibalistic before birth.	Saurornithoides Saurornithoides was a small, fast-moving, meat-eating dinosaur.	Scorpion A venomous arachnid with a large stinger on its tail.
Sea Cucumber Sea cucumbers are cylinder-shaped echinoderms.	Serval The Serval is a long-legged African wild cat.	Shrew Shrews are tiny mammals that are quite ferocious.	Siberian Tiger The largest member of the cat family, also known as the Amur tiger.
Skunk Skunks are black and white mammals that can produce a terrible odor.	Sloth The sloth is a slow-moving mammal that lives hanging upside-down from trees.	Slow Worm The slow worm is a legless lizard that looks like a snake (it is not a worm at all).	Small-Eared Zorro The zorro is a dog-like fox from South America.
Snapping Turtle A turtle with strong jaws and a long tail.	Snow Leopard Snow Leopards are rare, pale leopards from the snowy central mountains of Asia.	Spectacled Caiman The Spectacled Caiman is a common meat-eating reptile from fresh water habitats in South and Central America.	Sugar Glider This small marsupial (also known as the lesser flying phalanger) glides from tree to tree in Australia and nearby islands.
Tarantula A tarantula is a large, hairy spider.	Tarsier Tarsiers are small, nocturnal, arboreal primates with enormous eyes.	Tasmanian Devil Tasmanian Devils are nocturnal, meat-eating marsupials from Tasmania.	Tasmanian Tiger The Tasmanian Tiger was a large, meat-eating marsupial from Tasmania, mainland Australia, and New Guinea. It is probably extinct.
Three-Toed Sloth The sloth is a slow-moving mammal that lives hanging upside-down from trees.	Tiger Tigers are large, fierce cats that have stripes.	Toad Toads are amphibians with poison glands and usually warty skin.	Tuatara An unusual reptile from islands off New Zealand.
Vampire Bat Vampire bats are the bat that drinks blood.	Vinegaroon A whip scorpion, an arachnid that emits a vinegar-like mist.	Walkingstick The Walkingstick (also called the laboratory stick insect) is a long, slow-moving, plant-eating insect that looks like a twig. Or go to a printable Walkingstick read-and-answer quiz or the quiz answers.	Weddell Seal The Weddell seal is a large, nocturnal pinniped from Antarctica.
White Rhinoceros The White rhinoceros is a large rhino with gray skin and two horn-like spikes on its head.	Wild Cat African Wild Cats are fierce, solitary hunters.	Wombat The wombat is a rare, burrowing marsupial from mainland Australia and Tasmania.	Zorilla The Zorilla is a skunk-like mammal that lives in Africa.

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