Penguins nesting in a dangerous environment obtain large quantities of sleep via seconds-long microsleeps
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New study shows the most fragmented sleep ever recorded in an animal
Chinstrap penguins nesting in a dangerous environment get large quantities of sleep through thousands of episodes of seconds-long microsleeps. When breeding in a dangerous environment, chinstrap penguins usually do not nod off for more than four seconds at a time. However, they still get up to twelve hours of sleep in total thanks to over 600 such microsleep phases per hour - and over 10,000 per day. The animals sleep alternately with both hemispheres of the brain as well as with the whole brain. Despite and probably also because of the extremely fragmented sleep, the animals are able to reproduce successfully under difficult ecological conditions. ...TO READ THIS ARTICLE, CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT
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