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Vintage-Views Antique Prints and Maps :: Antique Prints :: Natural History :: Wildlife :: NOCTURNAL NIGHT ANIMALS,NACHTTIERE,1894 Original Antique Wood Engraving

NOCTURNAL NIGHT ANIMALS,NACHTTIERE,1894 Original Antique Wood Engraving

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A nocturnal animal is one that sleeps during the day and is active at night - the opposite of the typical human schedule (diurnal). The intermediate crepuscular schedule (twilight activity) is also common. Some species are active both during the day and night. Many species which are otherwise diurnal exhibit some nocturnal behaviour, for example many seabirds and sea turtles attend breeding sites or colonies nocturnally to reduce the risk of predation (to themselves or their offspring) but are otherwise dirurnal. Nocturnal animals generally have highly developed senses of hearing and smell, and specially adapted eyesight. In zoos, nocturnal animals are usually kept in special night-illumination enclosures to reverse their normal sleep-wake cycle and to keep them active during the hours when visitors will be attempting to see them. Some animals, such as cats, have eyes that can adapt to both night and day levels of illumination. Others, e.g. bushbabies and bats, can only function at night. (WIKIPEDIA) PRINT SHOWS : 1. ATTACUS ATLAS - The Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) is a large saturniid moth found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia, southern China, common across the Malay archipelago to Indonesia. In India, Atlas moths are cultivated for their silk in a non-commercial capacity; unlike that produced by the related Silkworm moth (Bombyx mori), Atlas moth silk is secreted as broken strands. This brown, wool-like silk is thought to have greater durability and is known as "fagara." Atlas moth cocoons have been employed as purses in Taiwan. 2. PHENGODES PULCHELLUS 3. CYSTOSOMA NEPTUNI 4. CRATOPMORPHUS DIAPHANUS 5. TARENTOLA MAURITANICA - The Moorish gecko Tarentola mauritanica, also known as Salamanquesa, is a small kind of gecko that lives in the Iberian Peninsula. 6. SCOPELUS ENGRAULIS 7. RHACOPHORUS REINWARDTI - R. reinwardtii adults can reach up to 3.5 inches in length for females, and slightly smaller for male specimens. The body is light green to dark green with tiny dark spots around the back and head. The green coloration varies from light to dark. The eyes are light yellow, light greenish, or light gray, with a black horizontal pupil. R. reinwardtii have large, colorful webs between each toe on both the front and hind extremities. These webs are used to glide from tree tops to the ground, and aid in catapulting from leaf to leaf. The feet also possess adhesive discs. Males are more elaborately colored, with orange, green, purple, black, and yellow coloration on the sides of the abdomen and on the webs of the feet. Females are slightly more understated, with reduced webs and less-brilliant coloration. Males will also develop nuptial pads on the front feet during breeding season. 8. AMYDETES PLUMICORNIS 9. STRIX ULULA - The Barred Owl, Strix varia, is a large owl. It goes by many other names, including eight hooter, rain owl, wood owl, and striped owl, but is probably known best as the hoot owl. 10. STRINGOPS HABROPTILUS - The New Zealand Kakapo or Owl Parrot 11. DIPUS AEGYPTIACUS 12. NYCTICEBUS TARDIGRADUS - Lemur , a ghost, specter. So called on account of its habit of going abroad by night. One of a family (Lemurid[ae]) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo. 13. TARSIUS SPECTRUM - The tarsiers are the members of the Tarsius genus of prosimian primates, monotypic in the Tarsiidae family and Tarsiiformes infraorder. The entire infraorder was previously classified in the Strepsirhini suborder, but now classified in the Haplorrhini suborder, although they are not considered to be monkeys.

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