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by Florin_Andrei 3608 days ago
It looks like some pretty heavy optimizations are needed if you want to be successful in one of those environments (daytime vs nighttime). Visual perception has to be fine-tuned for one of those environments. Perhaps thermal regulation is different too.

So I guess one possible explanation is that too many fine-tunings are required to work well in one environment, to allow the organism to be a good performer in both. So the logical choice is to withdraw from the other environment - just don't participate.