Nocturnal animals

Nocturnal animals are more active at night than during the day. These
animals sleep during the day, often in a burrow or den. Many animals,
like desert animals, are nocturnal in order to escape extreme daytime
heat. Nocturnal animal have special adaptations that help them survive in
the dark. Many nocturnal animals, like owls, lemurs and cats, have
special eyes that see well in the dark. Some nocturnal animals, like bats,
use echolocation, in which the animal emits a high-pitched sound which
bounces off objects. Other nocturnal animals have good hearing.
 Porcupines

They are third largest members of the rodent family. They are covered
with sharp quills, which protect them from predators. The quills are
modified hair.

Quills grow in varying lengths and colors, depending on the animal's age
and species.

Porcupines are classified into two major families. New world and old
world.

Life span captivity 10years and wild 6years

Food habits herbivore

Gestation period 210 days

Species 29

Weigh 5.4-15.9 kg

Unique feature As many as 30,000 quills cover its body

 Ratel
It is the biggest member in the rodent family. It is also known as
Honey-Badger. It is commonly found in Asia and India.

It has a black colored body with white marking on the top.

Ratels work in close partnership with a small bird called a Honey

Guide. Honey Guides are very good at finding bees nests and ratels
have a healthy appetite for bees nests. When the Honey Guide
discovers a nest, which is usually in hollow trees or among rocks, it
sings out loudly to inform the ratel.

Life span 25years

Food habits carnivore

Gestation period 6months

Weigh 10-14 kg

Unique feature very fearless animals and have been entered into
the Guinness Book of Records
 Owls
These birds come in many shapes, sizes and colors, but they are all
related and belong to one of two scientific bird family classifications. The
Strigidae owls are the typical owls or true owls, and this family includes
the majority of owl species. They are heavily camouflaged birds and have
large heads and round or oval facial disks. The tytonidae owls, or barn
owls, have more typically countershaded plumage and heart-shaped facial
disks, and their body shape is a bit more tapered and slender than the true
owls.

Life span captivity 20 years and wild 7 years

Food habits carnivore

Incubation period 30 days

Weigh varies and ranges between 2-5kgs

Unique features binocular vision, scavenger

Species 218
 Bats
Bats are the second largest order of mammals (after the rodents),
representing about 20% of all classified mammal species worldwide, with
about 1,240 bat species divided into two suborders: the less specialized
and largely fruit-eating megabats, or flying foxes, and the highly
specialized and echolocating microbats. About 70% of bat species
are insectivores. Most of the rest are frugivores, or fruit eaters. A few
species, such as the fish-eating bat, feed from animals other than insects,
with the vampire bats being hematophagous, or feeding on blood.

Life span 10years

Food habits frugivore

Gestation period 50-60 days

Weigh varies and ranges between 5-10gms

Unique features true flying mammals

Species 1000
 Civet cat
A civet is a small, lithe-bodied, mostly nocturnal mammal native to
tropical Asia and Africa, especially the tropical forests.
This shy cat-like wild creature wanders out of the jungle at night onto
a coffee plantation and selects only the finest, ripest coffee cherries to
eat. Only it can’t digest the stone (the coffee bean) and craps them
out, its anal glands imparting an elusive musky smoothness to the
resultant roasted coffee.

Life span 15-20 years

Food habits omnivore

Gestation period 90 days

Weigh 7-20kgs

Unique features coffee made from its feces, which is most expensive

Species 15-20