humans are able to sleep during the day and be awake during the night, can nocturnal animals do the same in reverse?

Question

humans are able to sleep during the day and be awake during the night, can nocturnal animals do the same in reverse?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Yes they can.

In labs you often put rodents (active during the night, sleep during the day) in reverse cycle for experiments purposes, so you simulate night time from 8 am to 10 pm and day time from 10 pm to 8 am. It’s as easy as turning of the light in the room with the rodents in it and it doesn’t take long for them to cycle accordingly, around 10-14 days.

And you can cycle them back up normally as well.