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Neuroethology: Fur Seals Don't Lose Sleep over REM Lost at Sea
Gianina Ungurean1, Niels C Rattenborg1
1Avian Sleep Group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Eberhard-Gwinner-Strasse 5, 82319 Seewiesen, Germany.
Current Biology : CB
|June 20, 2018
Abstract:
Northern fur seals forego large amounts of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep when sleeping in water, but remain healthy and do not recover this loss once back on land, challenging current theories for the function of REM sleep.

