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A species of small mammal lives in an environment with numerous daytime predators and scarce food resources. This animal spends most of the daylight hours inactive and asleep in a hidden burrow, becoming active to forage for food only during the night. From an evolutionary perspective, what is the most likely primary adaptive advantage of this specific sleep-wake cycle?
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