It's an eastern bongo! A herbivorous, mostly nocturnal forest ungulate (hoofed animal) and among the largest of the African forest antelope species. The Dublin Zoo is celebrating her birth, which ...

Bats fly low over water for a sip to drink. Dennis W. Donohue / Shutterstock. Bats are one of the most famous nocturnal animals. They are the only mammals capable of flight, and they head out at ...

Nearby, a red-rumped agouti — a South American rodent that looks like a large, long-legged guinea pig — scuttled behind a tree trunk. A few feet away, an Arabian sand cat put its paw inside a log to ...

In June 2024, animal scientists placed 12 habitat boxes and solar-powered cameras around Dingo Mountain in New South Wales, ...

In the case of the Amazon from Dusk to Dawn expedition, we focused especially on nocturnal animals and the environment,” he says. A team from the Amazon from Dusk to Dawn expedition observes and ...

Animals Around The Globe. Nocturnal Ninjas! ... While humans sleep, the forests, plains, and urban areas come alive with nocturnal creatures hunting, exploring, and thriving in the dark.

Instead of sleeping at night, some animals are switching to a nocturnal lifestyle. Neil Carter is a co-author on the study, which was led by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley.

The shift could change which prey animals hunt or make it harder to find food. ... In Poland wild boars go from 48 percent nocturnal in natural forests to 90 percent nocturnal in urban areas.

"The singing animals are probably males attempting to attract females that are willing to mate," postulates Hanna Rosti, who spent three months in Taita's forests, following the nocturnal mammals ...

To attract mates, animals might have to develop nonvisual reproductive rituals; as they begin relying more on sound for communication, vocal pathways might morph, changing the noises the animals make.