Scientists study whether spiders sleep like humans
Nighttime video footage of baby jumping spiders showed patterns that looked a lot like REM sleep cycles seen in humans.
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Nighttime video footage of baby jumping spiders showed patterns that looked a lot like REM sleep cycles seen in humans.
NEW YORK (AP) — It's a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders...
During observation, the spiders’ overnight movements looked a lot like REM in other species — like dogs or cats twitching in their sleep. And they happened...
Other animals, including some birds and mammals, have been shown to experience REM sleep. But creatures like the jumping spider haven’t gotten as much attention so it wasn’t known if they got the same kind of sleep, said Roessler, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Konstanz in Germany.
Biologist: ’It was just the most unusual thing I’ve ever seen’