If animals that come out at night are called nocternal then animals that come out in the day are called????
2007-06-17 09:57:01 · 2 answers · asked by JB2000 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Good question....
Animals that come out at night: nocturnal
Animals that come out during the day: diurnal
Animals that come out during dawn/dusk: crepuscular
Side note to that above, with crepuscular animals they are known to also be active during the night when there is a great deal of light still around (example: full moon, no clouds)
If you are doing research on it you will also want to look up "endogenous" and "exogenous". More or less those tend to be the guiding factors that decide what time animals are active. There is more to it than just that, but those well noted factors.
2007-06-17 13:09:16 · answer #1 · answered by The Cheshire 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The opposite is diurnal `happening by day, coming out during the day, occurring every day'. Animals which come out at twilight are called crepuscular.
2007-06-17 10:06:36 · answer #2 · answered by Little_mouse 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋