Silent porpoise: potential sleeping behaviour identified in wild harbour porpoises
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DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.09.015
Abstract: All animals sleep and it is essential for maintaining optimal brain function. However, cetaceans engage in the unusual practice of unihemispherical sleep, where only half of their brain sleeps at a time, due to their… read more here.
Keywords: potential sleeping; harbour porpoises; dive types; parabolic dives ... See more keywords