flefever writes:
> Also saw something about dolphins, e.g. REM in one hemisphere at a
> time, but in one of these newsgroups; no references.
Urban legend has it that dolphins require partial wakefulness to
assure respiratory air intake (and thus don't take kindly to
anaesthesia: they drown). They accomplish it by alternating
wakefullness between hemispheres (wish we could do that trick).
Alas, also no ref here...
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