Beastly Slumber

Did you know?

• Thrushes take hundreds of power naps a day, a few seconds at a time, in mid-flight.
• Otters fall asleep floating on their backs, sometimes holding paws with their friends so they don’t drift apart.

• Giraffes snooze only 20 minutes a day, often curled up with their heads on their own rumps.
• Brown bats doze 19 hours a day upside down.
• The desert snail has been recorded sleeping up to four years at a time.