HOW ANIMALS SLEEP
Elephants always sleep standing up, and horses usually do the same. The sloth, which lives in South Africa, sleeps hanging by, its feet, with its head tucked in hanging by their hind legs, while 1 head downward. Hares, fishes, and snakes sleep between its forelegs. Rats also sleep with their eyes wide open. Foxes and wolves, when they sleep, curl themselves up so that their noses aud the soles of their feet are close together. Dogs often sleep in this way too. At other times they, fling themselves down on their sides, or lie with their noses resting on their front paws. Birds, with the exception of owls, sleep with the head turned tailwards over the back and the beak snugly tucked in amongst the feathers. Long-legged birds, such a3 storks and gulls, usually sleep standing on one leg. Owls sleep in the daytime, and, in addition to their ■ eyelids, they have a screen, which they draw sideways across their eyes to shut out the light. Man is the only creature that sleeps on its back.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 70, 20 September 1927, Page 12
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179HOW ANIMALS SLEEP Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 70, 20 September 1927, Page 12
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