The TICA spokesperson said: "Feral cats roaming around the neighborhood in the dead of night give people the notion that felines are generally nocturnal animals." Meyer told Newsweek some cats may ...

This is called nocturnal behavior, and it’s common among many animals. They become more active at night to hunt, mate, or avoid heat and predators. How do animals see in the dark? Nocturnal ...

led to children wondering what animals may be exploring their nursery grounds when they are not there. Their fascination inspired the nursery to invest in a wildlife camera so that they could record ...

Examples of nocturnal animals include aardvarks, bats and owls, according to Active Wild. The opposite of nocturnal is diurnal. Humans, who function mainly in the daylight, are diurnal.

Animals like rabbits, house cats and deer are neither nocturnal nor diurnal. Instead, they're crepuscular. Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation ...

Nocturnal animals tend to have proportionally bigger eyes than humans do. They also tend to have pupils that open more widely in low light. So, at the outset, nocturnal eyes gather more light than ...

and perform other vital activities under the cover of darkness. Nocturnal animals boast large eyes with pupils that can open wide to maximize the amount of light entering the eye. Owls ...

Kaitlyn Gaynor, the lead author of the study and a doctoral student of Brashares, says she and her co-authors expected that animals ... activities appeared to trigger just as much nocturnal ...

Researchers have learned that dozens of species of animals have reacted to increased contact with human beings by shifting their internal clocks to become more nocturnal. “It suggests that ...

Sugar gliders are small nocturnal animals originally from the treetops of Australia and New Guinea. Their diet in the wild includes a combination of sweets from the forest, small animals ...