Studies of African elephants in 2017 found that the animals sleep significantly less in the wild than in captivity. Elephants in nature only sleep for about two hours, typically at night. What's more, the elephants in the wild only entered REM sleep once every few days. Sea otters sleep ho...
Well, it’s because theylookexactly like smooth-coated otters. The initial objective of the study mentioned above was to learn about smooth-coated otter populations around the world, not phylogeny and hybridization. So naturally, the researchers were confused. They thought the samples collected from...
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Gaps in time, amnesia. A pair of otters in the marsh staring at them for a little too long. A dolphin in the river whose eye looks shockinglyhuman. They begin to lose trust in their own perceptions. In the biologist’s words: “What can you do when your five senses are not enough?