ReviewBiology2025
The Disputable Costs of Sleeping.
Review in Biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
It is currently affirmed that sleep detracts from time for foraging, reproductive, and anti-predatory activities. In contrast, we show that the sleep-related reductions in food intake and reproductive activities may, in fact, be benefits. Furthermore, the present report shows that the optimal prey are the immature, weak, sick, and senescent animals and rarely the sleeping fit adults. Indeed, the reduced sleeping time observed in prey animals occurs, not because of an evolutionary antipredation pressure but because of the time-expensive foraging-related activities and the digestion of the high-cellulose content in the herbivores' diet, an activity that leaves reduced amounts of daily time for sleeping. We conclude that the need for sleep ranks lower than those of foraging, reproduction, and antipredation activities.
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