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1 Why do birds sleep with one eye open
Why do birds sleep with one eye open? Light exposure of the chick embryo as a determinant of monocular sleep  Gian Gastone Mascetti, Giorgio Vallortigara  Current Biology  Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages (June 2001) DOI: /S (01)

2 Figure 1 Mean (with SEM) percentage of time and number of episodes spent (a,b) in left/right monocular sleep or (c,d) in binocular sleep in chicks coming from eggs incubated in the light or in the dark. Significant departures from the chance level (0%), which indicated significant bias towards left- or right-eye closure during monocular sleep, were estimated by one-sample two-tailed t-tests (indicated by asterisks in [a] and [b]) Current Biology  , DOI: ( /S (01) )

3 Figure 2 Duration of total (a) binocular and (b) monocular sleep (group means with SEM are shown) Current Biology  , DOI: ( /S (01) )


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