frigatebird

I was checking out the award-winning American Physiological Society's I Spy Physiology blog and came across a couple of really interesting posts about animals: "If Only Birds Could Compete in the Summer Games" Photo of a frigatebird in the study. Credit: Max Planck Institute. This post reported a study of how frigatebirds manage to sleep during flights out at sea that can last for weeks. By measuring brain activity, the research team found that the birds were capable of actual sleep, during which time both sides of the brain showed sleep patterns for seconds at a time. In addition, they…