Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Rattenborg, Niels C ^a   Voirin, Bryson ^a,b   Cruz, Sebastian M ^a   Tisdale, Ryan ^a   Dell'Omo, Giacomo ^c   Lipp, Hans Peter ^d,e   Wikelski, Martin ^a,f   Vyssotski, Alexei L ^g  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Ornis Italica   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^g Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BIRD; BRAIN; EYE; FLIGHT; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD; SLEEP; WING;

ATTENTION; BIRD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FLYING; SEA; SLEEP; WING; ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; FREGATA MINOR; FREGATIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; SLEEP;

EID: 84982717686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12468     Document Type: Article

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