Without light
Dark as night
Would you be able to survive at night time, with no light? Your body clock would become confused and, worse still, you wouldn’t see your hand in front of your face. Take a voyage of discovery through our pitch-black cave. Can you identify the cave dwellers by touch? And does your sense of smell help in any way at all? Perhaps your ears can do better as you hunt like a bat for flies... but you will find that it’s not that easy! Yet a great many creatures live in total darkness. In this zone of X-treme we discover how these animals survive: the common pipistrelle, at night and in caves, and the angler fish, so deep in the ocean that only darkness prevails.
- Fact file 1: the Common pipistrelle
- Fact file 2: the Angler fish
