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Can you imagine eating lunch at midnight, going to school, playing with your friends, and talking to your family? That might seem odd to some of us, but to nocturnal animals, that's how they live their lives. Write the characteristic features of nocturnal animals.


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  • Animals which are active during night and sleep during the day are called nocturnal animals.
  • These creatures generally have highly developed senses of hearing and smell.
  • They have specially adopted eye sight to see well in dark. Their eyes get bigger and the pupils widen.
  • They mostly communicate by sound, like bats, they emit a high pitched sound which bounces off objects to find prey or protect from predators and help in sending signals to others.
  • Some desert animals become nocturnal in order to escape extreme day time heat. Some examples of nocturnal animals are, bats, owls, rats, etc.

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