Night Shift Animals and Nocturnal Adaptations
The piece explains nocturnal and diurnal animal activity, including eyes, senses, and reasons for night foraging. It highlights tarsiers in the Philippines and Indonesia, their size and ears, and fruit bats using smell and echolocation to locate food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Indonesia
Mini Page Night Scene Activities Guide
Weekly standards link for science and life science is given. Students study organisms life cycles and animal environments and complete activities drawing a nighttime scene with five nocturnal animals. They compare carnivores and omnivores and research animals using the Gazette arts and events sections for daytime and nighttime options.
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Lisference
the Gazette
Slow Sloths Climb Trees in Central and South America
Sloths are the slowest mammals and spend most of their lives in trees. They have good hearing, eyesight, and smell, eat leaves and fruit, and inhabit Central and South America.
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Central
South America
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Tarsiers
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Alpha Mouse
Writers’ Corner
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Cityline
Anima Anvie
United States
Mom
State of
Kansas
Barr
Bronx Zoo
New York City
Wildlife Conservation Society
Wcs.org