Nocturnal organisms are those that are active mainly at night and sleep during the day. Their activity pattern occurs in twenty-four hour cycles, known as a circadian rhythm. Nocturnal animals include bats, cats, owls, mice, scorpions, opossums,...

(from Latin, nocturnes: happening at night) A nocturnal animal is one that is active at night and rests during the day. Many small animals—rats and mice for example—are nocturnal. Predators—such as cats and owls—have developed...

A term that is applied to animals and plants meaning that they are active during the hours of darkness. See also:...

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A bat illustrating nocturnal features. As an animal behavior, nocturnality describes sleeping during the daytime and being active at night - the opposite of the diurnal human lifestyle, and that of those animals with which we are most familiar. The...

Nocturne Wenn sich die Nacht über Sils Maria legt, erwachen die Geister des todessehnsüchtigen David (Martin Rapold). Im Angesicht der eigenen Ansprüche an seine Schaffenskraft verzehrt er sich zwischen Genialität und Wahnsinn. David bittet seinen Bruder Gian (Patrick Rappold) in die zeitlose Abgeschiedenheit...

FAURà Nocturnes (complete) * Ãmile Naoumoff (pn) * SAPHIR 1077 (2 CDs: 92:39) Those accustomed to the crisp, briskly straightforward manner of such early 20th-century French players as Jean Doyen or Yvonne Lefébure (whose style was very close to what we know of...