The ultimate power nap: Researchers use 'Fitbits' to track elephant sleep in the wild
Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 13:01
in Biology & Nature
Behavioral studies of elephant sleep in zoos record that they sleep around four hours per day and can sleep standing up or lying down -- but how much do they sleep and how do they sleep in their natural environment? Researchers have made use of small activity data loggers, scientific versions of the well-known consumer fitness and wellness tracker, Fitbit, to study the sleeping patterns of elephants in the wild.