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#Sociality of #sleep in animal #groups

"Group-living animals sleep together, yet most research treats sleep as an individual process. Here, we argue that social interactions during the sleep period contribute in important, but largely overlooked, ways to animal groups’ social dynamics, while patterns of social interaction and the structure of social connections within animal groups play important, but poorly understood, roles in shaping sleep behavior."

https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(24)00176-9