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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Baboons aren't the only clever animals

French researchers reported this week that they had trained six baboons to read — or at least to scan a string of four letters and determine when they form a word and when they don’t.  The experiment, which was reported Thursday in the journal Science, cements baboons’ place among an ever-growing menagerie of clever animals.

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