Sentences with phrase «at nocturnal»

That was the question raised yesterday in one of the responses to yesterday's post over at Nocturnal Lives.

Here's Amy at the Nocturnal Animals photo call today with Tom, Jake, and Aaron Taylor - Johnson who apparently also delivers a performance that may be considered the best of his career.

• Looking at nocturnal (night) animals.

Even at their nocturnal best, the housing projects are - ablaze with harsh fluorescent lights, and they are perpetually noisy and far too impersonal for many Asians.

Not exact matches

The latest one released today shows the vehicle at night, which can create different driving conditions — like encounters with nocturnal creatures.

«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.

The reason is rats are nocturnal creatures and will usually come out of their nests to collect food and water at night and rest during the day.

He at least feels a little guilt about being vaguely nocturnal; I don't.

Except in the deepest forest, deer are largely nocturnal feeders in Michigan, but they can still be seen in some quantity at dawn or dusk if you know where to look.

Pitching talent in the major leagues is in precious short supply; because of injuries, inconsistency and incompetence, rotations these days change quicker than the nocturnal winds at Candlestick.

Catch the «Shadow Ceremony» for Raleigh's groundhog at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, go for an evening hike and search for owls and other nocturnal creatures at Lake Crabtree County Park in Morrisville, learn about teeth and get a FREE dental screening at the Poe Center in Raleigh, experience Native American culture at a pow wow in Durham and enjoy pay - what - you - can admission to Kidzu Children's Museum in Chapel Hill.

2 You don't have to be nocturnal to celebrate the arrival of 2014 at the zoo.

At night be lulled to sleep by a symphony of crickets, frogs and nocturnal birds.

Many boys will have nocturnal emissions or «wet dreams» and these are completely normal and occur during sleep when a boy has an erection at night and releases semen and sperm in a process called ejaculation.

Secondary nocturnal enuresis is when a child has been dry at night for 6 months and then begins to wet again.

We were blessed with a daughter who, at 2-1/2 years old, announced that she is nocturnal — and we didn't doubt for a second that she knew exactly what she was talking about!

If you're reading this because your child suffers from nocturnal fears, he's fortunate in at least one respect: You know about it.

Nocturnal enuresis is the involuntary urination while sleeping by a person who would normally be able to control urination at their age.

In primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE), children have never achieved complete night time control, always wetting at least a couple times a month.

At three overnight programs, 9 - and 10 - year - olds will learn about nocturnal animals and go on an owl hunt, attend a tea ceremony in the candle - lit Japanese garden or learn how to read the stars.

Relationship between bed - sharing and breastfeeding: This study investigated nocturnal bed - sharing of 14,062 live births at 5 time points from birth to 4 years of age.

Her doctoral work, in collaboration with Unicef, is based at the world renowned Parent - Infant Sleep Lab at Durham University where Allison is examining the nocturnal behaviour and physiology of breast and formula fed infants.

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

So if you're wondering whether or not sleep training is going to put your child at an increased risk for SIDS, or if it will somehow alter their natural sleep patterns, or make them nocturnal, or damage them in any way, I can assure you with the full support of the American Academy of Pediatrics, that it will not (3).

So if you're wondering whether or not sleep training is going to put your child at an increased risk for SIDS, or if it will somehow alter their natural sleep patterns, or make them nocturnal, or damage them in any way, I can assure you with the full support of the American Academy of Pediatrics, that it will not.

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 drive for academic achievement leads to high attainment in international academic assessments but has contributed to the curtailment of nocturnal sleep on school nights to well below the recommended eight to ten hours of sleep, putting students at risk of cognitive and psychological problems.

Jurassic forests were probably noisy places at night — there is evolutionary evidence that frogs were croaking by this time, and fossils suggest some Jurassic dinosaurs were nocturnal.

These strictly nocturnal creatures will sleep curled up in a pouch during the day and romp around at night, sometimes barking or chirping when excited or frightened.

Koops agrees a feedback loop may have been at work: ground - sleeping could have provided cognitive boosts that helped hominins to ward off nocturnal predators — like mastering fire — allowing for even more restful sleep and further cognitive development.

The routine was repeated at night, when they opened bat nets and wandered through the utterly dark forest, taking stock of its nocturnal creatures.

Because the majority of Lepidoptera are active at night, scientists thought the common ancestor of butterflies and moths was nocturnal.

Like cockroaches, kissing bugs are nocturnal insects that hide in cracks and crevices during daytime or when lights are on at night.

Marian Stamp Dawkins, an animal behavior expert at the University of Oxford, has championed the idea that aspects of sensory processing can influence the evolution of communication signals; for example, a nocturnal species whose predators are color - blind would not evolve colored warning splotches.

Blame «Night of the Living Dead» for this, but many people mistakenly think that zombies are nocturnal, going around their business of walking around town with stilted gaits, looking for people whose brains they can eat, only at night.

Light - emitting diode (LED) streetlights often draw moths and other insects into small areas at night, setting a buffet for nocturnal predators, but certain aspects of the lights themselves might be rendering insects vulnerable in even more sinister ways, new research suggests.

«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.

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.

At sunset, they break out drinks and snacks and wait for nocturnal life to arrive.

Echolocation is a skill that has evolved independently several times in the animal kingdom in response to low visibility conditions — whether at night, as with bats and a few nocturnal birds, or in murky water, as with whales and dolphins, Wiegrebe notes.

Dark Sky at Night Artificial night lighting doesn't just spoil star shows; it can confuse nocturnal animals and waste energy.

Mammals generally have rather poor color vision or even no color vision at all because they tended to be nocturnal during the early stages of their evolution.

Although more active at night, cougars are not strictly nocturnal and can be found active at any time of the day or night.

We can tell when an animal is most active by looking at its eyes: big ones are a sign of nocturnal habits, while smaller eyes indicate an animal is active during the day, or diurnal.

We thought the first mammals turned nocturnal to escape dinosaur predators, but 100 million years earlier, the precursors of mammals were active at night

He noted mice studies where the nocturnal critters became obese if they ate during day and night but remained a normal weight if they only ate at night.

Some researchers have proposed that the early, nocturnal mammals evolved larger brains to boost their hearing, because sight was less important at night.

In his encyclopaedic Natural History of around AD 77, he wrote that the «phenomenon commonly called a nocturnal sun... a light emanating from the sky at night» has been seen many times.

Mice are nocturnal, meaning that in the wild, they tend to be more active at night.