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Nocturnal animals are the animals that are more active at night to hunt, mate or avoid heat and predators. They have spectacular night vision. They are less active or they sleep during the day time. For example, owls, bats and foxes etc.
Some desert animals avoid the heat of the day by emerging only after dark. It is also easier to avoid predators under the cover of darkness.
Some desert animals avoid the heat of the day by emerging only after dark. It is also easier to avoid predators under the cover of darkness.
They estivate (summer hibernation) to avoid the intense heat and lack of food and water. Once the summer rains come they become active again.
Most animals that live in the desert are inactive during the day, and active at night. This is so they can conserve moisture, rather than losing it to the heat of the day, as many of them get all their moisture from the food they eat.
Many animals hide in burrows or caves in the hot day. Some animal to avoid the heat of the day only come out at night.
Animals that live in the desert adapt to cope with the lack of water, temperatures, and the shortage of food. To avoid the heat, most desert animals are nocturnal and come out at night to eat.
All owls have night vision. Since the desert can get so hot, most animals, including owls, come out at evening or night to avoid the heat of day. Since they're active at night, it's good to have nocturnal vision. Some desert owls are elf owls, pygmy owls, burrowing owls, great horned owls. It allows them to hunt when it is cooler.
To avoid the heat of the day, the bright sun, or other animals that are diurnal. They might also want to hunt other animals that are nocturnal. Also, hunting at night makes it far harder for them to be detected by prey. This is especially true concerning hunters - such as many of the snakes' specoes - who ambush their prey. There are more diurnal than nocturnal animals, so there is more competition for food during the day. Some animals have adapted by hunting at night.
endotherms are more likely to be active at night as they produce their own heat source, therefore could potentially be active at any time day or night (such as humans). Whereas Ectotherms have to reply on external heat sources to increase the body temperature and therefore activity levels (such as lizards). Consequently at night they are unlikely to be very active as it's generally cooler.
Velociraptor spent their days sleeping to avoid the heat of the desert sun. At night they would go out to hunt for small animals, search for carrion, and sometimes even hunt Protoceratops.
Reptiles are vertebrates with bodies covered with scales..They Absorb heat from the environment,but they avoid very high and very low temperatures.During winter some Reptiles hibernate.Reptiles that live in dessert share active at night when the temperature is lower.