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You're listening to nocterme. I'm Vanessa Lowe.

The first thing most people think of when they think of night is sleep. Everyone needs sleep.

Some need a lot and others get by on just a little.

I didn't fully appreciate sleep until I became a parent.

And since then I rarely had enough.

And my family will tell you, if I don't get enough for a while, I'm cranky.

Go without sleep for long enough, and things can get desperate and weird.

Other creatures like owls, dingoes, and badgers to name a few are doing important work at night.

For some it's life and death, like hunting for food or warding off competitors.

And every once in a while, a human's need for restorative sleep

is in direct conflict with a natural nocturnal world. It marks. It mocks things. The particular mocking birds that we have at times will sound like car alarms with the rising and falling tones and the beep and then at the

very end you can hear that when it decides it's click its key to turn the sound off.

Every other bird in the neighborhood would imitate so you get a little

orchestra of all the birds followed by car-arms with more birds for, I don't know.

Hours. Hours.

Hours. Hours. He would go on and on.

On and on.

There were, there's two of them, so we would get a stereotype.

This could happen at any time.

Well, the most inconvenient times, obviously when you're trying to sleep, but you know,

12 midnight, 2, 3 in the morning, all the way up until 4 or 5 in the morning.

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