Posted on 08/20/2019 7:13:29 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
But some birds risk their lives by snuggling up to conserve energy.
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.
When the birds were presented with the sound of crunching leaves, they were slower to respond than the forward-facing birds.
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Birds are some tough mini dinosaurs.
but exposes them to a higher predation risk...
That’s why I always sleep with one eye on the woman.
That’s why I always sleep with one eye on the woman.
Better to die peacefully in your sleep than to die tired.
Everybody has a mission in life. Don't miss a minute!
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.
They can sleep in pairs.
The Blue Jays snore when trying to sleep in the trees.
Hear tell if you force a hen’s head under their wing they’ll conk out.
Or so Stephen King wrote.
Obviously, a parrot wrote this.
Obviously, a parrot wrote this.
fixed it for you
fixed it for you.
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
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
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.
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!!!
The hummingbirds will fly into my water mist as I spray.
Is that cool!
And cool for the birds too.
Bird brains.
Yeah? Well people with sleep apnea who don’t use a CPap machine risk their lives just to take a nap too
Double-posting sentences put FReepers at a greater risk of predation...
Just cover their head with your hand.
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