Amazing Animals
Special Traits
Easy Peasy
Nocturnal Vocabulary
Girl Scout Nocturnal Activities
100
This animal's eyes are specially designed to be extra-intense for nighttime hunting. Their super-sensitive ears can even allow them to hear rodents digging under the ground.
What is a fox?
100
Bigger eyes and wider pupils
What are special traits of a nocturnal animal?
100
At night
What is when do nocturnal animals sleep?
100
Diurnal
What are animals who are awake during the day?
100
Girl Scouts make these tasty treats around the campfire.
What are s'mores?
200
The most famous nocturnal animal, and the only mammal capable of flight.
What are bats?
200
A reflective layer called the tapetum behind the retina that allows them to see better
What are special traits of nocturnal animals?
200
Skunks, owls, and foxes
What are types of nocturnal animals?
200
Nocturnal
What are animals who are awake at night?
200
Girl Scouts do this 'round the campfire
What is sing songs?
300
A night possums that glides from tree to tree to eat sugary nectar of plants
What is a sugar glider?
300
This animal's eyes are so big that they can’t move in the socket, but their wide pupils help them collect more light
What is an owl?
300
Better ability to survive predators
What is the reason some animals adapted to be nocturnal?
300
Stinkerbelle
What is a skunk?
300
When camping, oftentimes Girl Scouts do not do this at night
What is sleep?
400
Aey aye aye! I'm the largest nocturnal primate.
What is the Aye aye?
400
Many nocturnal animals have a good sense of smell and often communicate with scent marking. That sense of smell comes from what organ?
What is the Jacobson’s organ located in the roofs of their mouths. When an animal pulls its lips back and grimaces, it enhances the sensitivity of the organ.
400
To avoid extreme heat
What is a reason animals may be nocturnal?
400
Trash Panda
What is a racoon?
400
Every time we camp, this happens.
What is rain?
500
The only primate that uses echolocation to find prey.
What is the aye-aye?
500
This animal uses the earth’s magnetic fields to help them find and catch their prey
What is the fox? 
500
Their stinky spray, called “musk,” can hit a target up to 12 feet away, and the smell can last for four days. Yuck!
What is a skunk?
500
Playing opposum
What is pretending to be asleep or unconscious when threatened, and something nocturnal opossums
do!
500
Skits, songs, and silliness
What are things that happen around the campfire?