Curious Kids: Do animals sleep like people? Do snails sleep in their shells?
- Written by John Lesku, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Sleep Ecophysiology, La Trobe University
We know that lots of animals, maybe all animals, sleep. Cats, dogs, even worms and jellyfish sleep. But we still don't know exactly why they started sleeping.Marcella Cheng/NY-CC-BD, CC BY-NC-ND
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