#animalsleep — Public Fediverse posts
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Breeding penguins sleep ten thousand times a day! 🐧 💤 New study finds that with second-long microsleeps the penguins’ sleep still sums up to 12 hours a day! Microsleep seems to be a successful strategy to breed safely without losing the essential functions of sleep.
Find out more: https://www.bi.mpg.de/news/2023-11-rattenborg/
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How does a dolphin sleep? 🐬 Or a seal? 💤 Sleeping at sea can be a high risk for animals but is necessary for their brain to function. Read about the astonishing strategies different animals have developed to sleep safe at sea in Niels Rattenborg’s new review: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh9193
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