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• The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The person holding the record reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses.
Rats have similar sleep needs to humans. They require rest to be alert to dodge humans and cats. Giraffes can go without sleep for weeks; brown bats sleep the entire day. The golden dormouse balances itself on the branch of a tree to sleep – and any quiver of the twig awakens the dormouse. Smaller animals require more sleep than larger animals. Animals that sleep less than four hours average are large land mammals like the elephant and the cow. Horses stand 98 percent of the time while they sleep.
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Some birds sleep with one eye open to sense predators. Mammals, too, factor in danger when they sleep. The African Papio baboon sleeps on its heels in the tops of trees to avoid predators – talk about sleep deprivation.
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