r/interestingasfuck • u/DearEmphasis4488 • 1d ago

Animals sleep time

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u/Rubyhamster 1d ago

Wild how a tiger's day is just 5 hours long...

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u/GroshfengSmash 1d ago

19 hours sleep, apex predator, looks cool as fuck. Peak evolution

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u/Tabosby 1d ago

Im pretty sure its because they need to conserve all of their energy to hunt, or maybe thats just lions. But lions for sure cant afford to waste any extra energy otherwise theyll die. Its like the opposite of peak evolution imo lmao dude cant go 6 hours awake without losing too much energy to hunt again

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u/GroshfengSmash 1d ago

PEAK EVOLUTION

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u/pickle_lukas 1d ago

Carnivores in general chose a pretty risky evolution path as full time assassins that can only eat their target. Omnivores is the way, just eat anything with any caloric value

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u/NoRegionButYourMom 1d ago

It isn't, most of this is a load of shit. How much they sleep varies wildly depending on the time of year, and the circumstance of the cat.

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u/Rubyhamster 1d ago

Yeah, but large cats do have an incredibly high percentage of average sleep during the days they digest food. When patrolling, I'm guessing they sleep about 10 hours or something

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u/Supermoves3000 14h ago

Who would wake up a tiger? He can sleep as long as he likes. I'm surprised that some of the more edible animals get much sleep, though. If I was a mouse or a rabbit I would be too paranoid to sleep. How could you sleep when everyone wants to eat you?