8 Strange Ways Animals Sleep

Sleep is important to any species—but not all animals need the same kind of deep rest as humans. From sleeping standing up to sleeping inside...snot bubbles? Join Michael Aranda and learn 8 especially strange ways some animals catch their ZZZs.
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Sleeping Standing Up:

Sleeping Very Little:

Sleeping in Flight:

Uni-hemispheric Sleep:

Drift Diving:

Yo-Yo Diving

Sleeping Inside Snot Bubbles

Invertebrate REM Sleep

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[KleineDiva]

It's amazing how every living being looks adorable when sleeping. Loved the Giraffe most of all. So cute!

[caruzo]

Dolphins & Ducks: Now with Dual-Core Processors xD

[MtnTow]

"Accidentally bumped a whale"

**poke it bruh, see if its dead**

[BlackJohnnyCage]

I use to switch half of My brain to sleep mode too when I was in school.

[SquareSquidStudios]

Some sharks also swim while they sleep, but prefer to find an underwater current so they can swim in place.
Probably to avoid bumping into things.

[requiembeeblebroxx]

Oh. My gosh. Cuttlefish flashing during REM sleep might just be the cutest thing I've ever heard of.

[PajamaMan]

4:00 So sea creatures spawning vertically in No Man's Sky wasn't a bug, they were just sleeping

[dingdong]

Procrastinating going to sleep, by watching a video about sleep.

[gpd]

I would love to be able to do uni-hemispheric sleeping, especially during class.

[jaredsmith]

i find that the animal with the strangest sleeping habit is the college student

[Lance_Manyn]

One of these days, an octopus is going to come strolling up a beach, with its army of isopods in tow, and declare itself King of Earth.

[Cold_Leftovers]

Can we plx make a whole video for the sleeping while flying thing??? Like.... HOW??? That's so cool

[berglettemom]

Michael, you do such a good job hosting these videos! This was really interesting!

[WilliamJakespeareProps]

maybe those vertical whales were trying to communicate with an alien space probe

[WillMcc_WriterGoblin]

I'd love to hear more about octopuses! always found them so interesting

[veledwin]

Giraffes are my spirit animal now

Also that bit on octopus sleep was fascinating 😮

[jillw]

I love this channel!! This video was interesting! Thank you guys for doing all you do, one of my favorite channels

[OtakuUnitedStudio]

Octopus with its eyes closed for sleep is at once adorable and bizarre.

[greenredblue]

"Giraffes sleep very little..."

Oh wow, very interesting! How little?

"...needing just 5 hours per day."

...um.

<checks fitbit records>

Apparently I'm a giraffe?

[smithluke]

Aww that picture of the giraffe sleeping is the cutest thing ever