Baby dolphins sleep while swimming
Baby dolphins sleep while swimming around, unlike their adult counterparts who have periods of stationary rest, a team of Italian researchers has found .
The study, published in this week’s issue of the international Nature magazine, followed months of observation and data collection by experts at the Genoa Aquarium in northwest Italy .
“During their first year of life, young bottlenose dolphins sleep exclusively while swimming and, like all young mammals, have irregular sleep patterns, distributed both through the day and at night, for around 12 hours in total,” said the research team, Guido Gnone, Tiziana Moriconi and Giorgia Gambini .
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