Baby Owls Sleep Like Human Babies

[Still Waters]

Baby owls and baby mammals, including humans, sleep in an analogous manner, spending a similar amount of time in an awakelike phase called REM (rapid-eye movement), in which dreams are thought to occur, at least during adulthood, new research suggests.

In both owls and humans, REM sleep decreases with increasing age. Baby humans spend about 50 percent of their snooze time in this REM phase, whereas that figure decreases to less than 25 percent in adults, according to a statement from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

http://www.livescien...=51462710951174

[Lava_Lady]

awww.... I wonder what baby owls dream of? How cute X0)

[brlesq1]

I wonder if other aspects of the aging process are similar.

[Skep B]

awww.... I wonder what baby owls dream of? How cute X0)

Probably biting a tootsie pop at 3 licks.

....a**holes