Unlike most lizards, geckos are usually nocturnal and are great climbers.

In zoos, nocturnal animals are usually kept in special night-illumination enclosures to invert their normal sleep-wake cycle and to keep them active during the hours when visitors will be there to see them.

Silphid beetles are usually more active at night, nocturnal, which may help reduce competition.

Large owls, such as those in the Bubo genus, may be killed by these eagles but usually avoid direct conflicts by being nocturnal in activity rather than diurnal.

A nocturne ( from the French which meant nocturnal, from Latin nocturnus ) is usually a musical composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night.

It is mainly nocturnal and usually shelters in thick scrub during the day, through which it can travel at speed along the runways it makes.

While members of the genus Cicindela are usually diurnal and may be out on the hottest days, Tetracha, Omus, Amblycheila and Manticora are all nocturnal.

The Baroque artists usually treated it as a nocturnal chiaroscuro scene, illuminated by a single candle, torch or lantern, in the style fashionable in the first half of the 17th century.

Another symptom of heart failure is paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea a sudden nighttime attack of severe breathlessness, usually several hours after going to sleep.

Like other pangolin species, it is largely nocturnal, although it is also entirely terrestrial and usually found in savanna or open woodland, generally feeding on termites or ants.

As both animals are nocturnal and elusive, it is usually uncertain which species is referred to by either of these terms in any given usage.

They are usually inhabitants of the forest floor or wet areas associated with tropical forests, either nocturnal or intermittently active throughout the day.

The spiders, which are usually nocturnal, typically wait for prey while holding on to the underside of the door with the claws on their tarsi.

A nocturnal animal, the kinkajou's peak activity is usually between about 7: 00 PM and midnight, and again an hour before dawn.

Flying squirrels are usually nocturnal, since they are not adept at escaping birds of prey that hunt during the daytime.

Desmans and shrew moles are primarily nocturnal, but moles are active day and night, usually travelling above ground only under cover of darkness.

Legend tripping, also known as ostension, is a name recently bestowed by folklorists and anthropologists on an adolescent practice ( containing elements of a rite of passage ) in which a usually furtive nocturnal pilgrimage is made to a site which is alleged to have been the scene of some tragic, horrific, and possibly supernatural event or haunting.

There also is interest in nocturnal dialysis, which involves dialyzing a patient, usually at home, for 8 – 10 hours per night, 3-6 nights per week.

Regularly, men who experience erectile dysfunction are given a nocturnal penile tumescence ( NPT ) test, usually over a three day period.

The day-flying species are usually more strikingly colored and vibrant than the nocturnal individuals.

Sawfish are nocturnal, usually sleeping during the day, hunting at night.

Being nocturnal, they usually avoid light and like to hide in dark places, coming out to feed at night.

Nesting events are usually nocturnal, however diurnal nesting has been reported especially during large arribadas < sup > 1 </ sup >.

Eastern cottontails are crepuscular to nocturnal feeders ; although they usually spend most of the daylight hours resting in shallow depressions under vegetative cover or other shelter ; they can be seen at any time of day.

Cuban empanadas are typically filled with seasoned meats ( usually ground beef or chicken ), folded into dough, and deep-fried.

Filipino empanadas usually contain ground beef, pork or chicken, potatoes, chopped onions, and raisins ( somewhat similar to the Cuban picadillo ) in a somewhat sweet, wheat flour bread.

Alfredo de Zayas y Alfonso ( February 21, 1861, Havana, Cuba – April 11, 1934, Havana, Cuba ), usually known as Alfredo de Zayas under Spanish naming customs and also known as Alfredo Zayas, was a Cuban lawyer, poet and political figure.

Surprisingly, a 43 year old Witherspoon resurfaced in 2001, knocking out the usually durable prospect David Bostice in one round, outpointing Cuban southpaw contender Eliecer Castillo and huge Syrian Ahmed Abdin, before his revival was ended by hard hitting heavyweight Lou Savarese who stopped him in five rounds.

Note well that a guajeo is the typical Cuban / Afro-Cuban ostinato melody, a motif or phrase which is continually repeated in the same musical voice, usually consisting of arpeggiated chords in syncopated patterns.

Both forms are usually now given the respective common names of Hispaniolan Palm Crow and Cuban Palm Crow to distinguish them.

Cuban musicians who are members of the Abakua have continually documented key aspects of their society ’ s history in commercial recordings, usually in their secret Abakua language.

Those Cuban rafters who do reach land are inspected by Department of Homeland Security and usually are allowed to stay in the United States.

* Ai Toyon, the Yakut god of light, usually depicted as an eagle perched atop the " world tree "

In computer science, a binary tree is a tree data structure in which each node has at most two child nodes, usually distinguished as " left " and " right ".

A boomerang is usually thought of as a wooden device cut from a tree trunk, although historically boomerang-like devices have also been made from bones.

A codex ( Latin caudex for " trunk of a tree " or block of wood, book ; plural codices ) is a book made up of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, or similar, with hand-written content, usually stacked and bound by fixing one edge and with covers thicker than the sheets, but sometimes continuous and folded concertina-style.

Rock, ice and tree climbing all usually use ropes for safety or aid.

The second one happens on the evening of 24 December ; gifts are placed under the Christmas tree, usually in the absence of Santa-believing children ( many of whom are occupied with watching the sky in search of the first star ) if there are any in the family.

A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer such as pine or fir, traditionally associated with the celebration of Christmas.

An artificial Christmas tree is an object made to resemble such a tree, usually made from polyvinyl chloride ( PVC ).

To that end, the tree is portrayed as a sapling, usually of an oak tree in French interpretation.

By ancient tradition, Basques, and indeed other peoples in Medieval Europe, held assemblies under a tree, usually an oak, to discuss matters affecting the community.

Syrup makers first bored holes in the trunks, usually more than one hole per large tree ; they then inserted wooden spouts into the holes and hung a wooden bucket from the protruding end of each spout to collect the sap.

However, a Manitoba maple tree's yield is usually less than half that of a similar sugar maple tree.

tango tree, a type of tree optimized for fast searches, usually uses red – black trees as part of its data structure.

The source code which constitutes a program is usually held in one or more text files stored on a computer's hard disk ; usually these files are carefully arranged into a directory tree, known as a source tree.

In the Making The Amazing documentary on the Spider-Man 2 DVD, both Tobey Maguire and Bruce Campbell jokingly describe Raimi's penchant for " abusing " actors: In order to get realistic closeups of a character getting hit by debris, Raimi usually stands just off-camera throwing items, swinging tree branches, etc., at the actor who is at the center of the shot.

Both these perspectives are useful: while a tree can be analyzed mathematically as a whole, when actually represented as a data structure it is usually represented and worked with separately by node ( rather than as a list of nodes and an adjacency list of edges between nodes, as one may represent a digraph, for instance ).