Fat-tailed lemurs may point the way to sci-fi-like suspended animation
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 17:30
in Biology & Nature
The habits of the only known hibernating primate, the adorable fat-tailed dwarf lemur, may teach researchers ways to put humans into a low metabolic stupor to survive surgeries and spaceflight, and may one day answer the mystery of why humans need sleep at all.