List Of Nocturnal Animals
This is a list of nocturnal animals and groups of animals. Birds are listed separately in the List of nocturnal birds.
- Aye-aye
- Badger
- Bat
- Bat-eared Fox
- Beaver
- Binturong
- Bilby
- Galago (Bushbaby)
- Bush Rat
- Caracal
- Cat
- Catfish
- Chinchilla
- Cockroach
- Cougar
- Coyote
- Cricket (insect)
- Cyprus Spiny Mouse
- Dingo
- Dwarf crocodile
- Eastern Woolly Lemur
- Firefly
- Flying Squirrel
- Gerbil (some are diurnal or crepuscular)
- Great Grey Slug
- Hamster
- Hedgehog
- Hyena
- Hermit Crab
- Kangaroo (most, a few are crepuscular)
- Koala (mostly nocturnal)
- Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth
- Iranian Jerboa
- Kinkajou
- Kit Fox (mostly)
- Leopard
- Lion (bordering on crepuscular)
- Lycaon pictus (also called the African hunting dog) (bordering on diurnal)
- Margay
- Mink (bordering on crepuscular)
- Mouse
- Nine-banded Armadillo
- Octodon(except the diurnal degus species)
- Oncilla
- Ocelot
- Opossum
- Panamanian Night Monkey
- Pangolin
- Paradoxical Frog
- Porcupine
- Possum
- Python regius
- Rabbit rat
- Raccoon
- Ratel (Honey Badger)
- Red-eyed Tree Frog
- Red Fox
- Scorpion
- Skunk
- Slow Loris
- Spectacled Bear
- Sportive lemur
- Spotted Hyena
- Sugar Glider
- Tapeti
- Tarantula
- Tarsier
- Tiger (most species)
- Western Woolly Lemur
- White-faced Storm-petrel (when caring for young)
- White-tailed Deer (or crepuscular)
- Wombat
- Gray Wolf
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