The power of night

Discovery

BBC

Science

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Cooke meets some of the animal kingdom’s nocturnal inhabitants to understand why it pays to stir once the sun goes down.

She examines some of the extraordinary nocturnal adaptations from the largest group of mammals, the bats, to the mysterious long fingered lemur, the Aye Aye, to hear why the dark has proved evolutionarily advantageous. In an increasingly crowded planet, could future survival for many diurnal animals depend on a nightlife?

Producer Adrian Washbourne

Picture: Honey Badger, Credit: Cindernatalie/Getty Images

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0:35.2	I'm Lucy Cook and I'm exploring the surprising animal traits that, at first glance,
0:40.4	may seem like a hindrance, but turn out to be winning evolutionary strategies.
0:45.2	Let's hear it for the species of mammal who rise up at dusk.
0:49.6	The power of night.
0:53.4	This is Keny.
0:54.5	She's four-year-old, just as she was born here at the park.
0:57.2	Love the way she moves.
0:58.7	I have to say, she does move like a boss.
1:01.6	There's a real strut to it, isn't there?
1:04.2	Yes, it's kind of a rolling gate, isn't it?
1:06.2	She strolls around and throws her shoulders forward.
1:10.0	Is she just shined up that vertical trunk pretty easily?
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