Moore and colleagues decided to answer the question by putting seven captive Swainson's thrushes, which are normally active in the day but fly at
night during migration, into a cage and providing artificial sunrises and sunsets to mimic the migratory season.
Not exact matches
At
night, while their free - living counterparts were flying, the captive animals were fully awake and performed normally on learning tests, which suggests that the birds don't sleepwalk
during their
migrations.
However, at mid-slope depths there is an abundant and diverse ecosystem where a huge volume of animals make daily vertical
migrations to feed at the surface
during the
night.
«The circadian rhythm guides these animals through a daily
migration, to deep waters
during the day to hide from predators and shallow waters at
night to feed.
Behavioral experiments have shown that
night - migratory passerine birds can use a magnetic compass to orient
during migration [e.g. 1], [2] and recent data suggest that the magnetic compass is used as the birds» primary compass in mid-air
during real migratory flights [3].
During their extended
migration they swim day and
night, not sleeping.
We have seen Moscow at
night, Kenya
during the annual
migration and people - watched on Halloween in Vegas.