Newborn dolphins go a month without sleep

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Newborn dolphins and killer whales do not sleep for a whole month after birth, new research has revealed, and neither do their mothers, who stay awake to keep a close eye on their offspring.

The feat of wakefulness is remarkable given that rats die if forcibly denied sleep. And in humans, as any new parent will tell you, sleep deprivation is an exquisite form of torture.

The surprising sleeping patterns of captive killer whales - Orcinus orca - and bottlenose dolphins - Tursiops truncates - in the early months of life were observed by a team led by Jerome Siegel of the University of California at Los Angeles, US.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7606

[northzax]

1. so do newborn humans

oh wait, that just the parents of newborn humans.

[WeRQ4U]

2. I knew "Tursiops truncates" from Ace Ventura Pet Detective

LOL.

[Shell Beau]

3. Whoa! The poor moms! They have to watch their big babies!!