The Bizarre Ways That Animals Sleep

You aren't alone in your nightly tossing and turning. Sea lions do it, too.  A new video by National Geographic details the strange ways different animals sleep. Walruses, for example, can sleep floating vertically in the water, their heads bobbing above the waves. When hippos sleep in water, some sleep under the water, occasionally popping up to take a breath.  The most disturbingly odd sleeping style in the animal kingdom is, of course, the human grandfather.

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Poachers in Africa Have a New Enemy

How can a team of just 70 rangers more effectively protect the wildlife in an African national park the size of Rhode Island?  One word: statistics.  That’s the theory, anyway, behind a new paper published this week in the journal Conservation Biology. The study used a new statistical model to look at 12 years of illegal activity within Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park as a way to predict the possibility of future crimes.  It’s not quite Minority Report, but it may help foretell behavior and therefore protect the park’s elephants, hippos, buffalo, and other heavily poached wildlife.

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