World of Elephants

How to Sleep an Elephant

It is not easy for elephants to lie on the ground and rise, but lie down at night to sleep deeply for three to four hours, but if the elephant sleeps, sleep for a shorter period, and sleep will not be as deep as if lying down. [1] According to the San Diego Zoo African and Asian elephants do not sleep more than three hours. [

African elephant sleep

The researchers found that african elephants may be the shortest mammals on the surface of the earth, says an anatomical science professor at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, Paul That the elephants do not sleep very much, and that seems to be related to their size, and found that the brains of elephants contain unusual aspects attached to the systems of sleep, indicating that the periods of sleep must be very short

Number of hours of elephant sleep

Many studies of elephants seem to have drawbacks. They either rely on captive elephants, which have different sleep schedules than wild elephants, or do not distinguish between rest periods and sleep periods. This is why Manger and his colleagues monitored two wild African elephants In the Chop National Park in Botswana, which they monitored for 35 days, using a special implant to record the movements of the elephant trunk. These movements indicate that the elephant is asleep or not, and the GPS device to locate the elephant's sleep. Her eyes on some nights Perhaps this was because of the sense of turmoil, and these devices recorded a lack of sleep elephants for up to 46 hours,This result was associated with large movements of elephants up to 30 kilometers, indicating that their disturbance may be due to predation, or overfishing, and despite the lack of sleep on previous nights, elephants do not sleep longer on the following nights