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Land crabs are nocturnal scavengers that climb trees, enter holes and are the invertebrate ecological equivalent of rats.
But as well as spending most of the night hunting for midges and mosquitoes, the nocturnal animals are always searching for new daytime hangouts.
When I was first married I was practically nocturnal, and my wife was diurnal.
Saved from his crazy nocturnal adventure, he sets about building a microlight aircraft shaped like a dragonfly.
They are large, burrowing, nocturnal animals, with strong claws and a thick coat.
Sleep disturbance, seasonal affective disorders and the nocturnal polyuria of diabetes are related to abnormal biorhythm.
It was on one of these nocturnal meanderings that I spotted a young girl walking along about a block ahead of me.
The storm destroyed many of the blossoms and rain forest fruits that flying foxes eat, forcing the bats to alter their normally nocturnal habits.
A rare nocturnal sport, batfowling consisted of going into a forest or shrub-laden area and beating birds senseless with a bat.
All megachiropterans are nocturnal with the notable exception of Pteropus samoensis.
This is a nocturnal distraction to accompany the bored army's vodka sessions.
Secondary nocturnal enuresis is when a child has accidental wetting after having had bladder control for six or more months.
Unless every single dark location around the town is properly lit up the nocturnal rubbish dispensers will continue to have a field day.
The house is named after the spotted dikkop, a nocturnal bird who often visits the garden.
Water dikkops, nocturnal plovers and several species of kingfisher and bee-eaters have been sighted here.
The Egyptian mongoose is mainly nocturnal, although it sometimes hunts during the day.
In a Salon-style grouping of gouaches painted on antique chalkboards, the setting turns nocturnal and urban.
Colugos are nocturnal, passing the day in dens in hollow trees or suspended from branches.
The Siberian flying squirrel is a nocturnal arboreal rodent that nests in tree cavities, twig dreys, and nest-boxes.
Perhaps 100 million years ago, the ancestors of today's geckos became nocturnal predators.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The short-eared owl is more sociable than most nocturnal birds of prey, and is often met with in flocks of seven or eight.
The habits of the house cricket are nocturnal, like those of its congener of the fields.
Diurnal to crepuscular habits of this mouse may protect it from some of the nocturnal carnivorous mammals and raptorial birds.
The lens is biconvex in diurnal mammals, but in nocturnal and aquatic it is spherical.
Dollar sat beside him, in the shelter of a wind-screen that glazed and framed a continuous study in nocturnal values.
The owner of the fish wheel stepped forward to try his English on his nocturnal visitors.
Romantic student clubs at Lutter's and Wegener's wine-rooms left nothing untried to lure him to their nocturnal carousals.
It was by a true experience that the ancients so generally took nocturnal animals to be types of diabolism.
He rests during the day in shade, but is less of a nocturnal feeder than the sambar stag.
It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children.
It is of about the size of a Badger, and is, like the thylacine, a nocturnal animal.
Throughout the summer the manx shearwater is nocturnal, and at the approach of darkness becomes very garrulous.
Wretched about one son, he was dismayed at the nocturnal visit of the other.
And so he is my nocturnal owl, my flautist of the bower, my Orpheus of the mountains.
Rabbits and hares are crepuscular and possibly more nocturnal than diurnal.
They are nocturnal in their habits, very gentle and confiding, with apparently one exception, which is called the vari.
The nocturnal emission is not a universal method of emptying the seminal vesicles.
These emissions are likely to occur once in two to four weeks and take the place of the nocturnal emission.
I have not had a nocturnal emission for over three years, and probably not more than twenty-five in my life.
In strict usage, daily is the antonym of nightly as diurnal is of nocturnal.
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