Sentences with phrase «as nocturnal»

Yes, it is 2011, soon to be 2012, and the Dinosaurs, the most successful species to ever populate the earth (for approximately five hundred million years) were not extinguished due to their inability to evolve and grow with natural changing conditions, but were simply eliminated by a one - in - a-million extra-terrestrial event over a short period of time (one to three years), as were all forms of sun reliant life with the exception of a few ocean dwelling species, subsurface ground dwelling worms, plant life like lichens and other mindless species able to lie dormant for extended periods of time, as well as nocturnal, ground dwelling little rodents that ate roots, dead or alive, (from which we so - called superior life forms evolved).

As nocturnal migrants, Swainson's Thrushes are also frequent victims of collisions with glass, towers, and wind turbines.

Uncover more with fluorescent night diving as nocturnal creatures come out to play.

This is a particularly good night dive, with crustaceans galore as well as nocturnal fish lurking in quiet spots, and a variety of invertebrates and other creatures to be seen on the sandy floor at about 55 ft (17m).

Go on a twilight forest walk as nocturnal creatures awaken.

As nocturnal creatures, they feed at night, attacking their sleeping host, hence their colloquial name bedbug.

They aren't always presented in the best light,» she continues,» for example when portrayed in cartoons, they are dirty and digging through garbage cans — and they can be wary of people and as nocturnal animals they just aren't that visible.»

As a nocturnal animal, I don't notice him much during the day as he normally sleeps in the igloo, huddled under a washcloth for warmth.

Ferrets cycle through periods of activity, eating and sleeping (making it impossible to classify them as nocturnal or diurnal).

The first three volumes (Nocturnal Origins, Nocturnal Serenade and Nocturnal Interlude are available individually or as the Nocturnal Lives «boxed set».)

I'll tell the readers of the Honor and Ashes series, as well as the Nocturnal Lives series and Eerie Side of the Tracks series that they are going to have to wait at least another year or three for the next book in their favorite series while I finish the Sword of the Gods series.

I have also started adding an «Author's Note» at the end on new entries in both the Honor and Duty series as well as the Nocturnal Lives series.

While the character falls inside the actor's established wheelhouse, that doesn't mean he still doesn't approach the role with the same sort of tenacity and gusto he brought to previous performances in films as diverse as Nocturnal Animals, 99 Homes, Take Shelter, Premium Rush and Revolutionary Road.

In fact, it's estimated that up to 3 % of the population suffers from night sweats, or what is medically known as nocturnal hyperhidrosis.

As a nocturnal person, I didn't do all that well, but I was set on a path of advanced math and science courses from then until the end of high school.

Sleep - related eating disorder was operationally defined as nocturnal eating with a self - reported reduced level of awareness, occurring at least once per week.

The lifestyle of dwarf lemurs makes them extremely difficult to study as these nocturnal forest dwellers often remain in the upper parts of the forest canopy.

Bed - wetting, also known as nocturnal enuresis, is urination (peeing) at night that your child can not control.

With his treachery against Laban just behind him, and the awful reminder of his shame against father and brother just ahead in the inevitable meeting with Esau, God falls upon him as a nocturnal spirit who, after a struggle that endures throughout the night, again gives — this time simply in a name — both promise and blessing:

Not exact matches

So you can think of dream sleep as emotional first aid and it sort of offers this nocturnal soothing balm that smoothes those painful stinging edges of difficult experiences.

I wonder if the wild, nocturnal howl of beasts of prey is ever so dreadful as the inhumanity of the raging mob.

But Ana is in love with a certain marquis, and Juan, knowing this, disguises himself as her beloved and attempts a nocturnal assault on her virtue, of the sort that had worked so well with Isabela.

They said the couple shackled the children to furniture as punishment and made them live a nocturnal lifestyle.

«The call came into us at 11 am, and as foxes are nocturnal animals I can only imagine he had been there from the night before.

Join staff from Lake Crabtree County Park in Morrisville for an evening hike as you search for owls and other nocturnal creatures.

It's a rare moment when the kids, the job, the house cleaning, the laundry, food shopping, bill paying, and so much more, which doesn't result in the nocturnal noggin neuralgia most readily offered up as the excuse why sex won't happen again tonight.

Babies with medical problems such as asthma, pain, severe nocturnal fears don't positively respond to sleep method.

Of course, the nocturnal part is a bit of a misnomer for a baby, since they sleep for much of the day as well as the night.

Try as you might to ignore it, the nocturnal assault continues.

And, as noted above, secondary nocturnal enuresis has been linked with stress.

How to solve it: Your baby's nocturnal ways will correct themselves as she adjusts to life on the outside, but there are a few things you can do to help speed along the process of helping baby to separate day and night, including limiting daytime naps and making clear distinctions between day and night (like keeping baby's room dark when she naps and avoiding turning on the TV during nighttime feedings).

As a first tip for your boy's potty training, you have to encourage the kid to give up the need for nocturnal drinks.

As for the amount of nocturnal sleep they require to be well rested and to develop in an optimal manner at different ages, 3 to 12 year - old children usually need to sleep at least 10 to 11 hours per night.

This peculiar nocturnal event is as mysterious and exciting as a trading floor.

The lakes can be broadly classified as «clearwater,» in which full - spectrum light passes relatively unimpeded, or «blackwater,» in which most of the visible light is absorbed by dissolved tannins, creating an almost nocturnal environment with only dim, red - shifted light filtering in from above.

It turns out lower mammals that are active during the day, such as ground squirrels, lack the local pupillary light reflex Yau's team found; the same applies to primates, whether nocturnal or not.

The main white LEDs can extend a beam as far as 413 feet, while the green LEDs are not as bright but a good option for night vision and nocturnal adventures.

Nocturnal moths, such as the tobacco hawkmoth Manduca sexta, rely on their extremely sensitive sense of smell in order to locate their food sources: flowers that contain nectar.

As scorpions are nocturnal hunters, it seems odd that they fluoresce instead of camouflaging themselves.

It should come as no surprise that an archival search of the U.S. Patent Office yields an embarrassment of riches regarding various contraptions for guarding against self - abuse (masturbation) and nocturnal seminal emissions (wet dreams) in human males.

The scientific name of the long - limbed salamander, Nyctanolis pernix, translates as «night anole,» because this nocturnal salamander runs and leaps more like an anolis lizard than a salamander.

For nocturnal critters such as rodents that use smells to find mates and interpret their world, attractions to strong scents could drive evolutionary change.

«Eye degeneration can be seen as «collateral damage»,» as the birds adapt to their «nocturnal, lightless niche in which normal, functioning eyes are not necessary», says Stanley Sessions at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.

They found that species that have evolved noxious sprays as a defense, such as skunks, tend to be nocturnal and subject to predation by other mammals, whereas socially vigilant species, such as mongooses, tend to be diurnal and at risk of predation by birds of prey.

As deadly white - nose syndrome moves toward Wisconsin's borders, citizens are called upon to help investigate the threat through the collection of data about these nocturnal insectivores

To test this, the team studied the strategy of the nocturnal European catfish as it stalked swimming guppies in a test aquarium illuminated only by infrared light, in which catfish can not see.

The tree also provides a baseline to test whether diurnal, or daytime, activity, a common butterfly trait, evolved much earlier than scientists previously believed, possibly at a time when bats» spread across the planet, as a means of escaping these and other nocturnal predators, Kawahara said.

The nocturnal moths play an important role as pollinators.

«Whiskers are an amazing sensory tool to have when you are nocturnal and the evolution of whiskers possibly assisted in the survival of the therapsids — and more specifically the probainognathians — which eventually evolved into mammals as we know them today,» says Benoit.

Being nocturnal also helps to avoid humans, as well as being behaviourally able to deal with humans and their disturbance, as squirrels do.