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.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Known nocturnal animals

• Aardvark
• Aye-aye[1]
• Badger[2]
• Bandicoot
• Bat[3]
• Bat-eared fox[4]
• Beaver
• Binturong[5]
• Bilby[6]
• Black rhinoceros
• Black rat[7]
• Brown rat[8]
• Galago (bushbaby)[9]
• Bush rat[10]
• Capybara (some are crepuscular)[11]
• Caracal[12]
• Catfish[13][14]
• Chinchilla[15]
• Civet [16]
• Cockroach[17]
• Cougar[18]
• Coyote[19][20]
• Cricket[21]
• Cyprus spiny mouse[22]
• Dingo
• Dwarf crocodile[23]
• Eastern woolly lemur[24]
• Firefly[25]
• Flying squirrel[26][27]
• Gerbil[28] (some are diurnal or crepuscular[29])
• Great grey slug[30][31]
• Hamster[28][32]
• Hedgehog[33]
• Hermit crab[34][35]
• Honey badger[36][37]
• Hyena[38][39]
• Hoffmann's two-toed sloth[40]
• Iranian jerboa[41][42]
• Jaguar (bordering on crepuscular)
• Kangaroo (most, a few are crepuscular)[43]
• Koala (mostly nocturnal)[44][45]
• Kinkajou[46]
• Kit fox (mostly)[47]
• Leopard[48]
• Lion (bordering on crepuscular)[49][50]
• Margay[51]
• Mink (bordering on crepuscular)[52][53]
• Mouse[54][55]
• Nine-banded armadillo[56]
• Octodon (except the diurnal degus species)[57]
• Oncilla[58][59]
• Ocelot
• Opossum[60][61]
• Owl
• Panamanian night monkey[62][63]
• Pangolin[64]
• Paradoxical frog[65][66]
• Porcupine[67]
• Possum[68]
• Python regius[69]
• Quoll
• Rabbit rat[70]
• Raccoon[71][72]
• Red-eyed tree frog[73][74]
• Red fox
• Scorpion[75]
• Skunk[76]
• Slow loris[77]
• Slender loris[78]
• Spectacled bear[79]
• Sportive lemur
• Sugar glider
• Tapeti[80][81]
• Tarantula[82]
• Tarsier[83]
• Tasmanian devil
• Tiger (most species)[84][85]
• Onychophora
• Western woolly lemur
• Whip-poor-will
• White-faced storm petrel (when caring for young)[86]
• White-tailed deer (bordering on crepuscular)[87]
• Wombat[88]

Extinct nocturnal animals

• Panthera onca augusta (Pleistocene North American jaguar)
• Panthera onca mesembrina (Pleistocene South American jaguar)
• Palaeochiropteryx
• Tyto pollens
• Thylacine
• Troodon[89]
• Velociraptor[90]

See also

• Crepuscular, a classification of animals that are active primarily during twilight, making them similar to nocturnal animals.
• Diurnality, plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day and sleeping at night.
• Cathemeral, a classification of organisms with sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night.
• Matutinal, a classification of organisms that are only or primarily active in the pre-dawn hours or early night.
• Vespertine, a classification of organisms that are only or primarily active in the evening.
• Circadian rhythm
• Chronotype

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External links

• The Susceptibility of Nocturnal Animals to Ultra-violet Radiation
• BBC Nature Wildlife, Nocturnal