Show:
The Night Life
Night Senses
Night Communication
Daytime Homes
100
Animals that are awake at night
What is nocturnal
100
An owl is this kind of bird
What is nocturnal
100
Humans use this to communicate
What is language
100
This is the time nocturnal animals go to sleep
What is sun up
200
Animals that are awake during the day
What is diurnal
200
A owl's sharp claws
What are talons
200
The largest and strongest wolf in the pack
What is the alpha male
200
Porcupines have up to 30,000 of these on thier bodies
What are quills
300
Hard covering of a trantula
What is exoskelton
300
Special eyes that help keep light out of a night animal's sensitive eyes
What are are slit pupils
300
Wolves do this to find their pack, for safety and to scare away strange wolves
What are reasons wolves howl
300
What a group of bats that roosts togehter is called
What is a colony
400
Some animals feel safer at night, they hunt then, and some come out then to avoid the sun
What are reasons for animals being noctornul
400
A ball of bones and anything else an owl's body cannont use that an owl spits out
What is an owl pellet
400
Skunks do this to mark their area, to attract other skunks, and to defend themsleves
What are reasons skunks spray
400
This is how scientists find out where nocturnal animals sleep during the day
What is a tiny radio transmitter
500
Water enters and leaves through a frog's skin. If out in the sun, a frog's skin would get hot and dry due to this process
What is evaporation
500
A process where foam from the mouth of a hedghog is mixed with smells and spread all over the hedghog's body to make it smell bad to predators
What is self-anointing
500
This animal's sense of smell is hundreds times better than humans and it can recoginze another of its kind by smell
What is a badger
500
Bats like roosts, porcupines like dens, and mice like humans' houses
What are daytime homes for nocturnal animals