nocturnal creature

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nocturnal
adjective
uk
/nɒkˈtɜː.nəl/us
/nɑːkˈtɝː.nəl/
being active or happening at night rather than during ...
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creature
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkriː.tʃər/us
/ˈkriː.tʃɚ/
any large or small living thing that can ...
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Anocturnalcreature, the axehandle hound travels from camp to camp searching for its next meal.
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Anocturnalcreature, it is most active during the night, but is also observed during daybreak.
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It is suspected to be anocturnalcreaturebecause it had very large eyes which were roughly 5 cm across.
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The deer mouse is generally anocturnalcreature.
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It is a solitarynocturnalcreature, feeding on fungi, vegetation and small invertebrates.
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It is anocturnalcreatureand spends most of its waking hours among the branches of trees looking for food.
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It is a solitary andnocturnalcreature.
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Badgers are nocturnal creatures and it is advantageous if the keeper of badger pets is nocturnal also because that way he can have more fun with his pet.
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Orcs are nocturnal creatures, and only males go out of their caves, while females bring up the youth in the deepest part of the cave.
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He must fight to survive attacks from the hordes of nocturnal creatures, discover the secrets of their biology, and develop effective countermeasures.
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It contains quiet, eerie, blurred cluster-chords and imitations of the twittering of birds and croaking of nocturnal creatures, with lonely melodies in contrasting sections.
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Nocturnal creatures generally have highly developed senses of hearing, smell, and specially adapted eyesight.
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Mini-essays populate each chapter which each follow a theme, like nocturnal creatures, dreams, astronomy, and mythology.
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This peculiar name is the result of a legend about a battle between mythical nocturnal creatures.
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Many nocturnal creatures including tarsiers and some owls have large eyes in comparison to their body size in order to compensate for the lower light levels during the night.
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It is likely that the birds were attracted by insects around domestic animals, and, as strange nocturnal creatures, were then blamed for any misfortune that befell the beast.
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Bako's nocturnal creatures include the colugo, pangolin, mousedeer, various species of fruit-eating and insect-eating bats, tarsier, slow loris and palm civet.
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