The power of night

Discovery
15 feb 2021 27 min
The power of night
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About this episode

<p>Lucy Cooke meets some of the animal kingdom’s nocturnal inhabitants to understand why it pays to stir once the sun goes down.</p><p>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?</p><p>Producer Adrian Washbourne</p><p>Picture: Honey Badger, Credit: Cindernatalie/Getty Images</p>

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