Nocturnal Basics
These types of animals sleep during the day and are awake at night.
What are nocturnal animals?
Bats are the only mammals that can do this.
What is fly?
Owls can turn their heads about this many degrees.
What is 270 degrees?
This animal often washes its food with its paws.
What is a raccoon?
Nocturnal animals sleep all day.
False—many wake up to eat or move around.
This word describes animals that are awake during the daytime instead of nighttime.
What is diurnal?
Bats use this to "see" with sound.
What is echolocation?
A term given to people who stay up late.
What is a "night owl"?
Opossums may do this when scared.
What is play dead?
Bats are a type of bird.
False—they're mammals.
One reason many animals became nocturnal is to avoid these.
What are predators?
Many bats help farmers by eating thousands of these insects.
What are mosquitoes (or insects)?
Instead of chewing, owls spit up these balls made of bones and fur.
What are owl pellets?
Hedgehogs protect themselves with these.
What are quills?
Owls have excellent hearing.
True.
What is the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world?
The Tasmanian Devil.
Some bats help plants reproduce by spreading this.
What is pollen?
There are this many species of owls in the world.
What is about 250?
Opossums help gardens by eating large numbers of these tiny pests.
What are ticks?
Scorpions glow under a black light?
True- At night, scorpions can be located using ultraviolet light, which makes scorpions glow blue-green.
This animal stores fat in its tail.
What is the leopard gecko?
Fun Fact: Leopard geckos are "twilight hunters!" They're most active at sunrise and sunset, but they also spend time exploring and hunting at night.
Baby bats are called this.
What are pups?
Owls lay this many eggs on average, but can lay up to this many eggs.
What is 2-5 eggs on average, up to 14 eggs.
An opossum is North America's only what?
What is a marsupial?
Some species of moths are better at pollinating than bees.
True!