Ecology and neurophysiology of sleep in two wild sloth species

Sleep

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 753-761

  Voirin, Bryson ^a,b   Scriba, Madeleine F ^a,c   Martinez Gonzalez, Dolores ^a   Vyssotski, Alexei L ^d   Wikelski, Martin ^a,e   Rattenborg, Niels C ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepine; EEG; NREM sleep; Phasing; Predation; REM sleep; Sloth; Spindle; Wild

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; SLOTH; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ANIMAL; AROUSAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FELIDAE; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); METABOLISM; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RAIN FOREST; TIME; VETERINARY; WAKEFULNESS; WILD ANIMAL;

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; AROUSAL; BENZODIAZEPINES; DIET; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FELIDAE; FEMALE; ISLANDS; MALE; PANAMA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RAINFOREST; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; SLOTHS; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84897423380     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: 15509109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5665/sleep.3584     Document Type: Article

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