34 L4-Animals at Night

Oxford Read and Discover level 4 Animals At Night

牛津阅读和发现4级动物在晚上

Introduction At night, when you go to bed, thousands of animals are moving around outside in the dark. Many of them do not sleep all night! Do you know any animals that come out at night? How do animals see in the dark? What animals can you see here? Discover! Now read and discover more about amazing animals at night!

晚上，当你上床睡觉的时候，成千上万的动物在黑暗中四处走动。 他们中的许多人整夜都不睡觉!你知道有什么动物在晚上出来吗? 动物在黑暗中怎么看东西? 你在这里能看到什么动物? 发现!现在阅读和发现更多神奇的动物在晚上!

Chapter 1 Life at Night When the sun goes down, it gets dark and the air gets a lot colder. For many people, it's time to go to sleep, but a lot of animals only come out at night. They are called nocturnal animals. The opossum is a nocturnal animal. At night, it looks for plants and small animals to eat. In the day, it hides and goes to sleep. Discover! The armadillo is a nocturnal animal, and it sleeps for more than 17 hours in the day! Nocturnal animals aren't the only animals that come out at night. Some animals, like the tiger, come out in the day and at night. Other animals, like the rabbit, only come out in the morning when it's getting light, and in the evening when it's getting dark. Some animals come out at night because there are not so many predators animals that want to hunt and eat them. Some animals find more food because they eat other animals that come out at night. In very hot places, it's sometimes too hot to come out in the day.

第一章夜晚的生活当太阳下山时，天就黑了，空气变得更冷了。 对许多人来说，是睡觉的时候了，但很多动物只在晚上出来。 它们被称为夜行动物。 负鼠是夜行动物。 晚上，它寻找植物和小动物吃。 白天，它躲起来睡觉。 发现!犰狳是夜行动物，一天要睡17个多小时!夜行动物并不是唯一在夜间出来的动物。 有些动物，比如老虎，白天和晚上都出来。 其他动物，比如兔子，只在早上天亮的时候出来，晚上天黑的时候出来。 有些动物在晚上出来，因为没有那么多的食肉动物想要捕猎和吃掉它们。 一些动物找到更多的食物，因为它们吃其他动物在晚上出来。 在非常热的地方，白天有时太热而不能出来。

Chapter 2 Special Senses Many animals that come out at night have special senses. This means that they can see, hear, touch, smell, or taste very well. These special senses help them to find food and to stay safe in the dark. Wild dogs, like foxes, usually hunt in the dark. They have a big nose, and an amazing sense of smell that helps them to find food. A fox can smell mice through up to 12 centimeters of snow! Foxes also have very big ears that they can move, so they can hear very well all around them. Raccoons are nocturnal animals that have long fingers and a very good sense of touch. When they are hunting for food in water, they use their fingers to find fish and frogs. Many nocturnal animals can see much better than people in the dark. They have very big eyes that let in lots of light. Discover! A tarsier's eye is bigger than its brain! It can see very well in the dark.

许多夜间出来的动物都有特殊的感官。 这意味着他们的视觉、听觉、触觉、嗅觉和味觉都很好。 这些特殊的感官帮助它们寻找食物并在黑暗中保持安全。 野狗和狐狸一样，通常在黑暗中捕猎。 它们有一个大鼻子和惊人的嗅觉，帮助它们找到食物。 狐狸可以透过12厘米厚的雪闻出老鼠的气味!狐狸也有非常大的耳朵，它们可以移动，所以它们可以很好地听到周围的一切。 浣熊是夜行动物，有长长的手指和非常好的触觉。 当它们在水中寻找食物时，它们用手指寻找鱼和青蛙。 许多夜行动物在黑暗中比人看得清楚得多。 它们的眼睛很大，能让很多光线进来。 发现!眼镜猴的眼睛比它的大脑还大!它在黑暗中也能看得很清楚。

Chapter 3 Flying at Night In the day, owls stay in trees or buildings, but at night they hunt for food. Owls can see very well in the dark, and they also have an amazing sense of hearing. They listen for little noises from their prey rabbits, mice, and other small animals that they like to eat. Then they fly down and catch them in their sharp claws. Many owls have soft feathers on their wings, so they can fly very quietly. Their prey don't know that they are coming! Most types of bat are nocturnal. At night they look for fruit and flowers, or they hunt for insects, fish, and mice. Bats can see and smell very well, and many bats have a special sense called echolocation. This helps them to find food in the dark. Bats make special noises when they fly. The noises bounce off things and come back as echoes. These echoes tell bats where things are and how big they are. In the day, bats hang upside down and stay in caves, trees, and buildings. Discover! Bats are the only mammals that can fly!

在白天，猫头鹰呆在树上或建筑物上，但在晚上，它们寻找食物。 猫头鹰在黑暗中也能看得很清楚，它们也有惊人的听觉。 它们倾听猎物兔子、老鼠和其他它们喜欢吃的小动物发出的小声音。 然后它们飞下来，用锋利的爪子抓住它们。 许多猫头鹰的翅膀上有柔软的羽毛，所以它们可以很安静地飞行。 它们的猎物不知道它们来了!大多数蝙蝠都是夜行动物。 晚上，它们寻找水果和花朵，或者捕食昆虫、鱼和老鼠。 蝙蝠有很好的视觉和嗅觉，许多蝙蝠有一种叫做回声定位的特殊感觉。 这有助于它们在黑暗中寻找食物。 蝙蝠飞行时会发出特殊的声音。 噪音从物体上反弹回来，形成回声。 这些回声告诉蝙蝠物体的位置和大小。 白天，蝙蝠倒挂着，呆在洞穴、树上和建筑物里。 发现!蝙蝠是唯一会飞的哺乳动物!

Chapter 4 Ocean Animals Some fish live near the top of the ocean in the day and then they swim down to the deep ocean at night. Other fish swim up to the top of the ocean at night, and they look for plankton— very small animals that swim up to the top of the ocean every evening to find food. Plankton are food for fish like the lantern fish. The lantern fish stays down in the deep ocean in the day, but when the sun goes down it swims to the top of the ocean. It feeds near the top of the ocean at night, and then swims back down before morning. Discover! The lantern fish has lights on its body when it swims. The whitetip reef shark also comes out at night. It stays in caves down in the deep ocean in the day, and doesn't move very much. Then at night, it comes out to hunt for fish and octopuses.

第四章海洋动物有些鱼白天生活在海洋顶部附近，晚上就游到深海里去。 其他鱼类在晚上游到海洋顶部，它们寻找浮游生物——每天晚上游到海洋顶部寻找食物的非常小的动物。 浮游生物是灯笼鱼等鱼类的食物。 灯笼鱼白天呆在深海里，但当太阳下山时，它就游到海洋的顶部。 它晚上在海洋顶部附近觅食，然后在天亮之前游回海底。 发现!灯笼鱼游泳时身上有灯。 白鳍鲨也在晚上出来。 它白天呆在深海的洞穴里，不怎么移动。 到了晚上，它会出来捕食鱼和章鱼。