Sleepwalking is commonly known as a human phenomenon, but have you ever imagined your cat, dog, or even a turtle roaming around in their sleep? This bizarre behavior, known as somnambulism, is seldom ...

Max Genecov is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a dad, and a stuffed animal owner. “I’ve always had them growing up, I had a big fantasy life with them ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep. Sleep is universal “even though it’s actually very ...

What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human animals know from experience that we need to sleep, and that the longer we go ...

For humans, sleep is necessary to recharge our bodies and minds. But did you know that not all animals sleep the way we do? Some animals hardly rest, while others never really sleep at all! This might ...

Group sleeping can impact when animals sleep, how long they sleep for, and how deeply they sleep. For example, groups of meerkats time their sleep according to “sleep traditions”; olive baboons sleep ...