Yes, fish sleep. Go SCUBA at night and you'll see. The parrot fish weaves a mucous membrane around itself as a security device.
peace & Love On Jul 15, 8:50 pm, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote: > Are fish able to sleep? > > On Jul 15, 3:42 pm, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Maybe the more interesting question here is the need for sleep at all. One > > theory is memory consolidation, where information and skills acquired during > > the waking day are organised by the brain into usable data. A bit like a > > file indexing service on most modern computer operating systems. The neural > > pathways to access that information are stabilised into long-term memory. > > > See:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14744210?dopt=AbstractPlus > > > I've also read about experiments done on rats proving that those allowed to > > sleep less than those with natural circadian rhythms died younger. > > > There are some weird anomalies too. For example new-born dolphins may not > > sleep for the first few months of their lives, which asks all kinds of > > questions about sleep that we presume to be fairly well-established in > > mammals. > > > Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
