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      The bigger they are, the less sleep they need

      OK, I thought u'd might like to learn some thing today so here it goes:
      The body size of an animal causes the time of sleep they need to decrease. In other words, the smaller an animal gets the more sleep they need. There are 2 theories on why this occurs:
      Smaller animals have much higher metabolic rate then larger ones, they burn more energy while awake and therefore need to spend more time asleep to make up for it.
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      The higher metabolic rates of small animals lead to greater cell injury, more sleep is required for the damage to be repaired.
      There u go then, hope ya learnt summat!

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      Ants don't sleep at all.

      Or did you mean mammals. In which case I'm sure a cat sleeps more then some smaller mammals?

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      Put it this way:
      Elephant=3 hours
      Human=8 hours
      Dog=10.1 hours
      Cat=12.5 hours
      Lizard=14.4 hours
      Bat=18 hours
      Realise the relationship between size and time now?

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      Haz2004=23.99999991 hours

      Okay maybe that was mean.

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      IT WAZ MEAN!

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      I'd love to get 8 hours of sleep a night...

      And I think cats are different; cats live longer than other mammals their size because they sleep so much... it lengthens their life span or something, I can't remember the exact details of it...
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      It's kinda weird when ya find out that you spend like 1/3 of your life asleep.

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      I've had less then 4 hours of sleep per day this week...:-( wish i could sleep in for 16 or 17 hours...:-(
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      ...I've been sleeping an average of 14 hours a night this week. 'Course, it really doesn't count, since I've got approximately NOTHING to do, and I've still got half a bottle of melatonin. And it's day 2 of my DREAM MARATHON! So yeah. But normally I average about 5 hours a night.
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      Sleep is underated everywhere.

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      I'm probably getting about an average of 6-7 hours of sleep lately. Mostly due to just staying up for no good reason or going out with friends (which is surprising!) And tonight I'll probably get about 5 or 6 if I'm lucky and don't want to take a shower in the morning.

      -Amé

      "If there was one thing the lucid dreaming ninja writer could not stand, it was used car salesmen."

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      I go to bed at either midnight or 1 in the morning, and wake up at 1 in the afternoon - getting up at 8 in the morning sucks (school days).

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