Nocturnality

Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by activity during the night and sleeping during the day. The common adjective is "nocturnal".

Nocturnal creatures generally have highly developed senses of hearing, smell, and specially adapted eyesight. Such traits can help animals such as the Helicoverpa zea moths avoid predators. Some animals, such as cats and ferrets, have eyes that can adapt to both low-level and bright day levels of illumination (see metaturnal). Others, such as bushbabies and (some) bats, can function only at night. Many nocturnal creatures including tarsiers and some owls have large eyes in comparison to their body size in order to compensate for the lower light levels during the night. More specifically, these animals have been found to have a larger cornea relative to their eye size than diurnal creatures, in order to increase their visual sensitivity in the low light conditions. Nocturnality helps wasps such as Apoica flavissima avoid hunting in intense sunlight.

List of nocturnal animals

This is a list of nocturnal animals and groups of animals. Birds are listed separately in the List of nocturnal birds.

Known nocturnal animals

Nocturnal Animals (film)

Nocturnal Animals is an upcoming American drama thriller film directed and written by Tom Ford, based on the 1993 novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Kim Basinger, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Shannon, Isla Fisher, and Armie Hammer. Principal photography began on October 5, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.

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Production