Creatures of the Night: Nocturnal Animals

Happy Wildout Whiskers Wednesday!

Welcome to another edition of The Missy Show blog.  Thanks for letting us still be your premiere source for fun and informative pet topics.  Today we're going nocturnal.  Well, we aren't, but the animals of today's blog post, certainly are.

Okay, so what exactly does being a nocturnal animal, mean?  For starters, it means they are creatures of the night.  Nocturnal animals are: those that do most of their sleeping during the day, and come out to hunt and be active at night.  Now that we have a good working definition, let's get into some Nocturnal Animal Facts.  Today's Nocturnal Animal Facts are courtesy of Animal Sake.

https://animalsake.com/nocturnal-animals-list 

Quick Facts about Nocturnal Animals 

• Owls with their peculiar night vision can hunt very small predators even in complete darkness.
• Bats hunt their prey with the help of echo sounding or echolocation. They generate sound waves, which after hitting an object, return in the form of echoes. From these echoes, bats have the ability to determine the size, shape and distance of the prey.
• Mink, a nocturnal mammal, uses its highly sensitive nose for communicating between each other, and also, to hunt its prey in the dark.
• In the desert, nocturnality enables the inhabiting animals to conserve water in the body by avoiding the hot daytime heat.
• Do you know, rabbits have a well-developed hearing ability? Yes, they have and it helps them locate low-pitched sounds in total darkness.
• Cats and dogs can see well in both daytime and night darkness. Thus, they are categorized under diurnal animals.
• Very few diurnal animals like seabirds prefer visiting their nesting sites at night in order to protect themselves from predators.

Here's a list of some nocturnal animals:

• Bat
• Aye aye (lemur)
• Owl (not hawk owls)
• Mouse
• Coypus
• Eastern woolly lemur
• Western woolly lemur
• Badger (or brocks)
• Gecko
• Mole salamander
• African hunting dog
• American porcupine
• Coyote (prairie wolf)
• Bush baby (galagos)
• Snowshoe hare
• Green sea turtle
• Cat
• Bat eared fox

To see the complete list of Nocturnal Animals, please click the link above.  And for more nocturnal info from Animal Sake, click below:

https://animalsake.com/facts-about-nocturnal-animals 

That's it for now, Missians!  I'll see you guys back here next Wednesday for our next post.  But still check us out on Facebook and Twitter for more Missy Show madness.

Until next time, 

This is your host, J.

Signing off....

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