Splash and Bubbles
Nocturnal or Diurnal?
Clip: Episode 33 | 1m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Zee tells Splash, Bubbles, Dunk & Ripple that she is nocturnal- she stays awake all night!
Zee tells Splash, Bubbles, Dunk & Ripple that she is nocturnal, which means she stays awake all night and sleeps during the day. Splash and friends are diurnal, which means they sleep all night and stay awake during the day.
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Splash and Bubbles
Nocturnal or Diurnal?
Clip: Episode 33 | 1m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Zee tells Splash, Bubbles, Dunk & Ripple that she is nocturnal, which means she stays awake all night and sleeps during the day. Splash and friends are diurnal, which means they sleep all night and stay awake during the day.
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Bubbles, there you are.
- We've been looking for you.
- Ah, slime slugs.
Is it time to go home already?
- Well, we didn't wanna spoil your mud party, Bubbles, but, yeah, it's kind of that time.
- Aren't you getting tired?
- Nope.
[laughs] If I had it my way, I'd stay up all night and never go to sleep.
- Yeah, I don't think I could stay up all night long.
I'd fall asleep in my sand art.
- Bubbles, every fish has to go to sleep when it's dark out.
It's just, well, the way it is here in the ocean.
- Oh, you guys might wanna check your fin facts on that one.
all: Hi, Zee.
- Well, what do you mean?
- Well, not every fish in Reeftown goes to sleep at night.
- What are you saying, Zee?
- How's that possible?
- I'd like to meet this fish that stays awake all night long.
- Ahem.
Hello?
It's me.
Your friendly neighborhood zebra bullhead shark.
- Whoa, that's amazing!
- No way!
- That's right.
I'm nocturnal.
- [stammers] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Get back to the part where you stay up all night.
- Oh, well, that's what "nocturnal" means.
I sleep most of the day and I'm awake at night.
- See?
[laughs] I told you there was a way for me to stay up and play and play.
- [laughs] Hold your fins, Bubbles.
Zee is nocturnal, but we are definitely diurnal, which means we're awake during the day and we go to sleep at night.
- But, Splash, you're a fusilier, and you said that fusilier's don't need much sleep.
- Well, true, but even schooling fish like fusilier's have to get some rest at night.
- [yawns] Speaking of getting rest at night, I think it's time for all of us to go home and get some sleep.
- Yeah, okay, guys, good night.
- Good night, everyone.
all: Good night.
- Yeah, right, sleep, whatever.
Nocturnal, huh?
Hmm.
[gasps] Ooh, yeah!
[laughs] [all yawn]

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