Penguins snatch seconds-long microsleeps

Christian D Harding¹, Vladyslav V Vyazovskiy^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine and Physiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
² Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ The Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Christian D Harding et al. Science. 2023 Dec.

. 2023 Dec;382(6674):994-995.

doi: 10.1126/science.adl2398. Epub 2023 Nov 30.

Christian D Harding¹, Vladyslav V Vyazovskiy^{2

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4}

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine and Physiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
² Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ The Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Abstract

Chinstrap penguins fall asleep thousands of times per day in the wild.