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Researchers have discovered that some penguin parents sleep for only seconds at a time around-the-clock to protect their eggs and chicks.
Researchers have discovered that some penguin parents sleep for only seconds at a time around-the-clock to protect their eggs and chicks.
For some penguins, it means thousands of mini-catnaps a day, researchers discovered. Chinstrap penguins in Antarctica need to guard their eggs and chicks around-the-clock in crowded, noisy colonies. “These penguins look like drowsy drivers, blinking their eyes open and shut, and they do it 24/7 for several weeks at a time,” said Niels Rattenborg, a sleep researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence in Germany and co-author of the new study.
Researchers have discovered that some penguin parents sleep for only seconds at a time around-the-clock to protect their eggs and chicks.
Researchers have discovered that some penguin parents sleep for only seconds at a time around-the-clock to protect their eggs and chicks.