Almost 70 percent of the world’s animals are nocturnal — and for good reason. It’s cooler at night, easier to avoid detection by predators, and there’s less competition for food. Most nocturnal animals have some special adaptations, including a highly developed sense of smell and hearing. Some have large eyes that can see well in low light, while others don’t rely on the sense of sight.
Nocturnal animals use the nighttime hours to hunt, eat, mate and play. Let’s take a look at five animals that are busy while most of us are sleeping.
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Native to Madagascar, the aye-aye is a type of lemur that spends most of its life in tree canopies — eating, sleeping and mating. They also spend 80 percent of their nighttime hours foraging for food and can travel over two miles on their quest. Although they have rodent-like teeth (with incisors that never stop ...
