Sleep in an Amazonian manatee,Trichechus inunguis

1 April 1992

journal article
research article
Published by Springer Nature in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Vol. 48 (4) , 417-419
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01923447

Abstract

For the first time, sleep was studied in a representative of the order of Sirenia. Slow wave sleep occupied 27%, and paradoxical sleep 1% of the total recording time in the Amazonian manatee,Trichechus inunguis. The circadian rhythmicity of sleep was pronounced. During the sleep period, the manatee woke up for a short time for each respiratory act. Interhemispheric asynchrony of the electrocortical slow wave activity was found.

Keywords

SLEEP
MANATEE

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Sleep in Marine Mammals
Published by Springer Nature ,1984