Smell is a critically important sense for many animals. It may help them hunt ... flightless bird find insects under the soil. Kiwis are nocturnal ground hunters and they do not use their eyes ...

Like this fennec fox, nocturnal behavior makes sense for animals living ... a Jacobson’s organ that can smell chemicals including pheromones. Other nocturnal animals rely on taste and touch ...

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 ...

Do any nocturnal animals share characteristics, even if they are from completely different species? For example, a highly developed sense of smell or hearing? Ask students to imagine a creature ...

Do any nocturnal animals share characteristics, even if they are from completely different species? For example, a highly developed sense of smell or hearing?

In the past, confined by our five senses, humans have got a lot wrong about the ways animals sense their environments ... people can do to make their local environments friendlier for nocturnal ...

Many animals are very difficult to spot in the wild ... Outside of breeding season pandas live a solitary life, using their brilliant sense of smell to detect predators, humans and other pandas from ...

The sense of smell is particularly important to many animals, such as mice, in their search for food. But food odor does more than give these animals information about their environment: It also ...

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 ...