Birds Sleep During Flights, Too

Scientists, for the first time, confirm that birds sleep midflight.

By Bridget Alex
Dec 19, 2016 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 5:21 AM
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Scientists monitored the head movements and brain activity of flying frigatebirds, confirming for the first time that the birds could sleep midflight. | Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Bryson Voirin/Nature Communications/10.1038/ncomms12468/3 August 2016

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