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.



Known nocturnal animals

 * Aardvark
 * Aye-aye
 * African elephant (possibly crepuscular; when near humans, otherwise diurnal)
 * American black bear
 * Badger
 * Bandicoot
 * Bat
 * Bat-eared fox
 * Beaver
 * Bilby
 * Binturong
 * Black rhinoceros
 * Black rat
 * Black-footed cat
 * Bobcat
 * Brown rat
 * Galago (bushbaby)
 * Bush rat
 * Capybara (some are crepuscular)
 * Caracal
 * Cat (can be awake at any time of day or night but are mostly crepuscular)
 * Catfish
 * Chinchilla
 * Civet
 * Cockroach
 * Cougar
 * Coyote
 * Cricket
 * Cacomistle
 * Cyprus spiny mouse
 * Dingo
 * Dolphin
 * Dwarf crocodile
 * Eastern woolly lemur
 * Firefly
 * Flying squirrel
 * Genet (animal)
 * Gerbil (some are diurnal or crepuscular )
 * Giraffe (possibly crepuscular)
 * Gray wolf
 * Great grey slug
 * Great white shark (possibly crepuscular)
 * Hamster
 * Hedgehog
 * Hermit crab
 * Hippopotamus
 * Honey badger
 * Hyena
 * Hoffmann's two-toed sloth
 * Iranian jerboa
 * Jaguar (bordering on crepuscular)
 * Kangaroo (most, a few are crepuscular)
 * Koala (mostly nocturnal)
 * Kinkajou
 * Kit fox (mostly)
 * Leopard
 * Leopard Gecko
 * Lhasa Apso
 * Lion (bordering on crepuscular)
 * Lynx
 * Margay
 * Mink (bordering on crepuscular)
 * Mole
 * Mouse
 * Nightingale
 * Nightjar
 * Nine-banded armadillo
 * Octodon (except the diurnal degus species)
 * Oncilla
 * Ocelot
 * Opossum
 * Otter
 * Owl
 * Owl monkey
 * Pacarana
 * Panamanian night monkey
 * Pangolin
 * Platypus
 * Paradoxical frog
 * Porcupine
 * Possum
 * Puma
 * Python regius
 * Quoll
 * Rabbit rat
 * Raccoon
 * Red-eyed tree frog
 * Red fox
 * Ringtail
 * Scorpion
 * Skunk
 * Slender loris
 * Slow loris
 * Spectacled bear
 * Sportive lemur
 * Sugar glider
 * Tapeti
 * Tarantula
 * Tarsier
 * Tasmanian devil
 * Tiger (most species)
 * Turtle
 * Onychophora
 * Western woolly lemur
 * Whale
 * Whale shark
 * Whip-poor-will
 * White-faced storm petrel (when caring for young)
 * White-tailed deer (bordering on crepuscular)
 * Wild boar
 * Wolverine
 * Wombat

Extinct nocturnal animals

 * Allosaurus
 * Ceratosaurus
 * Coelophysis
 * Ctenochasma
 * Deinonychus
 * Majungasaurus
 * Ornitholestes
 * Palaeochiropteryx
 * Panthera onca augusta (Pleistocene North American jaguar)
 * Panthera onca mesembrina (Pleistocene South American jaguar)
 * Rhamphorhynchus
 * Shuvuuia
 * Thylacinus cynocephalus (Thylacine)
 * Troodon
 * Tyrannosaurus
 * Velociraptor