Sloth
Aunty …
Sloth’s lazy image ‘a myth’
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The sloth’s popular image as a lazy creature that sleeps for most of the day has been called into question.
Rather than snoozing for more than 16 hours a day, as observed in captivity, sloths in the wild doze for less than 10 hours
Wish I could sleep ten hours a day, lazy sloths
The findings, published in a Royal Society journal, may help shed light on human sleep disorders
like what ? if humans lived in captivity we’d spend more time sleeping ?
“I think this finding is really going to open the door to a whole new age of sleep research on animals sleeping in their natural habitat.”
you hope so, because your grant cheque depends on it
Animals vary in the amount of sleep they need. Pythons, for example, sleep for 18 hours a day, while giraffes survive on just two hours.
lazy pythons
Despite many years of research into the function of sleep, there are still many unresolved questions.
It is known that sleep plays an important role in maintaining normal mental functions, but the precise mechanisms are unclear.
