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WASHINGTON — It’s a challenge for all new parents: Getting enough sleep while keeping a close eye on their newborns. For some penguins, it means thousands of mini-catnaps a day,
It's a challenge for all new parents: Getting enough sleep while keeping a close eye on their newborns. For some penguins, it means thousands of mini-catnaps a day around-the-clock to protect their eggs and chicks, researchers discovered. The mini-catnaps appear to be enough to keep the parents going for weeks.
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It's a challenge for all new parents: Getting enough sleep while keeping a close eye on their newborns. For some penguins, it means thousands of mini-catnaps a day around-the-clock to protect their eggs and chicks, researchers discovered. The mini-catnaps appear to be enough to keep the parents going for weeks.
These short ‘microsleeps’, totalling around 11 hours per day, enough to keep them going for weeks