Sleeping Outside The Box: Electroencephalographic Measures Of Sleep In Sloths Inhabiting A Rainforest
May 15th 2008Drug InformationBiology
We performed the first electroencephalogram (EEG), or brain wave, recordings of sleep on animals in the wild using a recently developed miniaturized EEG recorder, and found that brown-throated three-toed sloths (Bradypus variegates) inhabiting the canopy of a tropical rainforest only sleep 9.6 hours per day, over six hours less than previously reported in captivity, and much less than commonly believed.
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