SciShow | 5 Animals That Sleep Too Much (and One That Might Not Need To)

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Episode Title: 5 Animals That Sleep Too Much (and One That Might Not Need To)
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Description: SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. In the animal kingdom, sleeping can be dangerous. Lying completely motionless and unconscious for hours at a time is just asking for trouble. There are, however, some sleepy risk-takers who spend almost all of their days snoozing. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: General: https://www.semel.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/sleep/publications/Mammalian_Sleep.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08806-w http://www.bu.edu/phylogeny/ Brown Bat: http://biology.kenyon.edu/roth/Lesku%20et%20al.%202008%20SMR.pdf https://www.semel.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/sleep/publications/09%20phylogeny%20Nature%20Reviews%20Neuroscience%20Siegel.pdf http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/eptefusc.htm Koalas: http://www.publish.csiro.au/zo/ZO9850655 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0080366 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00689622 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0031942273807010 Opossum: https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Didelphis_marsupialis/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432806002476 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/dev.420130502 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5573803/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763414001997 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/dev.420020407 Human infants: https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/topic/default?id=infant-sleep-90-P02237 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627304006452 https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=U2lnDAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT405&dq=infant+sleep+function&ots=cm_5_gc3A6&sig=1er6X48dfRRwDm4EtQa5likxkBk#v=onepage&q=%20function&f=false https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3034236/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/40064433?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01507.x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5440010/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627304006452 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1527336908001323 Nine-banded Armadillo: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0031938473903107 https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/123659 https://www.tuck.com/stages/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241038063_Life_on_the_Half-Shell_Consequences_of_a_Carapace_in_the_Evolution_of_Armadillos_Xenarthra_Cingulata [PDF] Fruit flies: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/2/eaau9253 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/scientists-say-every-animal-needs-sleep-these-fruit-flies-didn-t-get-memo


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