When on land, they mostly spend the day hidden under stones or logs or in dense vegetation, emerging in the evening and night to forage for worms, insects and other invertebrates.

:" The Beaver is an amphibious creature: by day it lives hidden in rivers, but at night it roams the land, feeding itself with anything that it can find.

Severian, Bishop of Gabala ( d. 408 ), wrote that the Earth is flat and the sun does not pass under it in the night, but " travels through the northern parts as if hidden by a wall ".

They deliver him at night, while he is fast asleep, to a hidden harbour on Ithaca.

The night before the game, Ed Sabol of NFL Films met with Hank Stram and convinced Stram to wear a hidden microphone during the game so his comments could be recorded for the NFL Films Super Bowl IV film.

Sacred Astronomy is the study of “ the Gospel in the Stars ,” an examination of the constellations in Earth ’ s night sky to discern the hidden allegorical message within them from the Creator God to His people.

Carefully hidden and moved by barge at night, the crates reached Mindanao on 26 March, where a makeshift air depot had been established in a coconut grove at Buenavista Airfield using mechanics of the 19th Bomb Group and the 440th Ordnance Company.

Four to eight young are born, sometimes as many as 12 in southern populations ; the young spend six weeks in the backward-facing pouch, and then about as long again hidden in a grassy nest under bark or other vegetation while the mother forages each night.

The family discovers that Miss Quentin has run away in the middle of the night with a carnival worker, having found the hidden collection of cash in Jason's closet and taken both her money ( the support from Caddy, which Jason had stolen ) and her money-obsessed uncle's life savings.

About 65 % of the defenders slipped away during the night via the lake and swamps to the east where waka were hidden.

The next night he became staggeringly drunk and invited Abe to meet him at the Abeno Shrine, planning to murder him with a hidden butcher knife when he arrived.

Owls hunt mainly by watching from a snag, pole or other high perch, sometimes completely concealed by the dusky night and / or partially hidden by foliage.

From this direction, the Japanese bombers were hidden by the night sky, but Giffen's ships were silhouetted against the twilight of the western horizon.

That night a storm broke and the mountain was hidden in fog, and then it began to snow.

His epitaph reads " When your face is hidden from me, like the moon hidden on a dark night, I shed stars of tears and yet my night remains dark in spite of all those shining stars.

It was possible to re-program the length of day and night in order to account for the changing lengths of day and night throughout the year, and it also featured five musician automata who automatically play music when moved by levers operated by a hidden camshaft attached to a water wheel.

After the Trojans pull what they believed is a parting gift within the walls of the city, soldiers hidden within exit at night and open the gates.

Although she is surprised at the beginning, by the end of the night she seems to be in love with Alan, calling him her " lemman ", telling him where the cake is hidden, and that her father stole his flour.

* Exactly 3: 40 into " Azwethinkweiz ", a hidden message of Boyd saying something backwards can be heard: " Thursday night, we smoked indica, and ' azwethinkweizm ' was born.

Hobarts crew were allowed to go about the ship but the captain was closely observed, until in the middle of the night he attempted to dispose of hidden papers.

That night, he swims out to the cave where the group's only boat is kept, only to find that Karl has used it to escape to the mainland.

When Odysseus attacks the Cyclops later that night and stabs him in the eye, the Cyclops runs out of his cave, yelling to the other cyclopes that " No-one has hurt me!

At night, he would cast a black victim into a pit sacred to Agamedes, drink from two rivers called Lethe and Mnemosyne, and then descend into a cave.

* Mala VisiónAccording to one version of the legend, Mala Vision was a beautiful woman maddened by jealousy, that one night she murdered her husband and dumped his body in a cave by covering it with burning coals to cremate his body totally believing that he was maintaining relationships with other women.

The cave is home to a colony of glow worms ( larvae of the insect Arachnocampa flava ) and commercial operators lead night tours into the cave.

Cave weta may be active within the confines of their caves during the daytime, and those individuals close to cave entrances venture outside at night.

One species, Aerodramus papuensis, has recently been discovered to use this navigation at night outside its cave roost also.

A particularly vivid account was written in 1619: ' as I was contemplating the serene sky by night, I saw a very bright dragon with flapping wings go from a cave in a great rock in the mount called Pilatus toward another cave, known as Flue, on the opposite side of the lake '.

Oilbirds are nocturnal ; during the day the birds rest on cave ledges and leave to find their food at night.

Five hundred pounds of black powder was manufactured for the Overmountain Men by Mary Patton and her husband at their Gap Creek powder mill, and the Overmountain Men stored the Patton black powder on that first rainy night in a dry cave known as Shelving Rock that is located nearby present day Roan Mountain, Tennessee.

Thaipusam is also celebrated at another cave site, the Sri Subramaniar Temple in Gunong Cheroh, Ipoh, Perak and at the Nattukottai Chettiar Temple along Jalan Waterfall in Penang. The chariot procession begins on Thaipusam eve where the chariot together with Chettiar kavadis -- male chettiar carry a peacock feather yoke accompanying the silver chariot -- ( different from body-piercing type of kavadis ) departs Kovil Veedu ( House Temple ) on Penang Street, Georgetown in the morning ends here at night, an 10 hours journey to reach Hilltop temple.

Typically, they leave the cave during the day to forage and return to their roost at night.

He hid the night in a " cave " at Aberedw rocks.

That night, Manson and Kasabian had sexual relations together in a Spahn Ranch cave.

One night, a drunken monk leads Little Mute to a secret cave behind a waterfall.

According to the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, Zeus in the dead of night secretly begot Hermes upon Maia, who avoided the company of the gods, in a cave of Cyllene.

' One imagines them: a small fire of eucalyptus branches in the immense cave of the southern night, beneath the drift and icy prickle of unfamiliar stars ; the secret bush noises beyond the outer ring of firelight-rustle of grass, flutter and croaking of nocturnal birds -- all sharpened and magnified by fear ...”

After the explorers find refuge for the night in a canyon cave, they begin to see the primitive descendents of that civilization emerging from behind boulders and creeping toward them.

* At about 5: 30 at night thousands of wrinkled lipped bats emerge from a cave 3 km outside the northern gate to begin night time feeding.

Mangler squigs are two great cave squigs chained together, with a night goblin trying his hardest to direct them towards the enemy.

Stefania Follini was involved in a 1989 experiment on circadian rhythms, and voluntarily isolated herself for four months in an underground room thirty feet down a cave in Carlsbad, New Mexico, away from all outside indications of night and day.