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Being active at night is a form of niche differentiation, where a species' niche is partitioned
not by the amount of resources but by time (i.e. temporal division of the ecological niche).
For example, hawks and owls can hunt the same field or meadow for the same rodents
without conflict because hawks are diurnal and owls are nocturnal.
Fill the gaps in the summary using words from the list below it.
Nocturnal animals sleep during the daytime, whereas ______ animals are awake during the
day and they ______ at night. Animals that are active at night tend to have ______ hearing
and smell, and they may have ______ eyesight. Nocturnality allows animals to hunt for prey
without having to ______ with predators that are active during daylight hours.
most, sensitive, asleep, conflict, diurnal, compete, exceptional, sleep
Exercise 25
IELTS Reading: paragraph heading
Read the following paragraph about the inventor Thomas Edison.
Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices
that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture
camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. He was one of the first inventors to
apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of
invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial
research laboratory. Edison is the fourth most prolific inventor in history, holding 1,093 US
patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
He is credited with numerous inventions that contributed to mass communication and, in
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