r/interestingasfuck • u/DearEmphasis4488 • 1d ago

Animals sleep time

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u/LostHour4428 1d ago

Ants sleep too ? 😭

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u/singh7priyanshu 1d ago

Yeah same question, i think there was some experiment where they monitored ants for 48 hrs ... Something to determine that they do not sleep.

not sure anymore

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u/xSh4dw2 1d ago

they do

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10905-009-9173-4

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u/JhonnySkeiner 1d ago

These findings reinforce the parental exploitation hypothesis—sterile workers are a caste of disposable, short-lived helpers whose vigilance and hyperactivty increases the queen’s fitness by buffering her and her fertile offspring from environmental stresses

Bruh

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u/lasagna_for_life 1d ago

I feel attacked

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u/cognitive_dissent 1d ago

so what do they do

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u/NieMonD 1d ago

Ants don’t properly go and lay down to sleep like most animals, they do hundreds of tiny sleeps throughout the day whenever they get a chance to rest