Birds engage in all types of sleep in flight, but in remarkably small amounts
Thursday, August 4, 2016 - 17:01
in Biology & Nature
For the first time, researchers have discovered that birds can sleep in flight. Together with an international team of colleagues, Niels Rattenborg from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen measured the brain activity of frigatebirds and found that they sleep in flight with either one cerebral hemisphere at a time or both hemispheres […]