Some birds risk their lives for a good nap, scientists find

The Irish Examiner ^ | 19 Aug 2019

[DUMBGRUNT]

Possibly safer than the birds that sleep while flying great distance?

Birds are some tough mini dinosaurs.

[dp0622]

but exposes them to a higher predation risk...

That’s why I always sleep with one eye on the woman.

[DUMBGRUNT]

That’s why I always sleep with one eye on the woman.

Better to die peacefully in your sleep than to die tired.

[Ezekiel]

The researchers analysed the sleeping patterns of Garden Warblers...

Everybody has a mission in life. Don't miss a minute!

[Larry Lucido]

If they sleep with their head tucked in the scapular feathers, they enter a sort of deeper sleep that is associated with lower energy consumption but exposes them to a higher predation risk

If they sleep with their head tucked in the scapular feathers, they enter a sort of deeper sleep that is associated with lower energy consumption but exposes them to a higher predation risk.

Obviously, a parrot wrote this.

[DIRTYSECRET]

They can sleep in pairs.

[Deaf Smith]

August in Texas...does not cool off much at night.

The Blue Jays snore when trying to sleep in the trees.

[txhurl]

Hear tell if you force a hen’s head under their wing they’ll conk out.
Or so Stephen King wrote.

[Revel]

Obviously, a parrot wrote this.
Obviously, a parrot wrote this.

fixed it for you
fixed it for you.

[DUMBGRUNT]

First I must say that I’m hearing impaired since RVN, but have some nice hearing aids programmed for human speech, not snoring?
And I do not wear them to bed.

But I found this:
The video’s publisher, who was studying for a masters degree in ornithology upon publishing the video three years ago, suggests that the hummingbird’s mouth is open because it is taking in extra oxygen to come out of torpor—a short, nightly hibernation in which birds lower their breathing rate and body temperature to conserve energy on cool evenings
https://www.audubon.org/news/can-hummingbirds-snore

[Larry Lucido]

Some places you just shouldn't nap.

[dp0622]

True!

My pop had 2 heart attacks, 2 strokes and 2 aneurysms.

He was missing a kidney because when he got sick in the late 1920s there was no penicillin for a very bad urinary tract infection.

And yet besides maybe 5 seconds where he talked funny while he was having the stroke, I NEVER saw him look like a very ill man.

And to boot, many were expecting him to go in a long torturous way, maybe paralyzed from a stroke, kidneys shot etc..

He did in his sleep while on vacation in Canada with my mother.

I am glad he did not suffer.

Dying in your sleep is a nice way to go

[Deaf Smith]

Hummingbirds; I will water the trumpet vines and spray the leaves to keep them blooming. The hummingbirds will fly into my water mist as I spray.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Dying in your sleep is a nice way to go

Yes! like uncle Joe!
Not screaming like the rest of them in his car, as he went over the cliff!!!

[DUMBGRUNT]

The hummingbirds will fly into my water mist as I spray.

Is that cool!

And cool for the birds too.

[Texas Eagle]

Bird brains.

[golux]

Better to die peacefully in your sleep than to die tired.Better to die peacefully in your sleep than to die tired.

Oh, brother, well said.

I pray I will die peacefully in my sleep like my uncle Fred rather than screaming in terror like his passengers.

[Bob434]

Yeah? Well people with sleep apnea who don’t use a CPap machine risk their lives just to take a nap too

[OrangeHoof]

Double-posting sentences put FReepers at a greater risk of predation...

[gundog]

Just cover their head with your hand.