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Nocturnal animals generally have the following characteristics to make themselves adaptable to the nocturnal habit. They have Sensitive Ears, Night Eyes and acute sense of smell.

Sensitive Ears: The nocturnal animals have sensitive ears to protect themselves from their predators and to hunt for their preys.

Sense of Smell: Some nocturnal animals find their prey by their acute sense of smell. They smell and track the location of their prey and feed on it.

Night Eyes: These Eyes in nocturnal animals like owls, nighthawks, lorises etc are very large. The large eyes helps the animals to see at night by gathering the light effectively. Tapetum, a mirror like layer in the eyes also helps them to see in dark.