Not sleeping at all doesn't qualify for sleeping, so cannot beat the mole rat's just under one hour of sleep.

Oddly enough, the domestic cat is the only feline in that bucket, so to speak (and I don't even want to speak of a bucket of felines). Genetic scientists believe that the Egyptians bred out the tendency to sleep so that the cats could act as guards for the owner both when they were sleeping and once they passed into the afterlife.

But you are correct in that the facts seem contradictory -- the second fact would have been more accurate to refer to only wild animals or true sleep.

Both, and it always ends with very scratched arms.

Actually the eggs are transferd to the males by the females to be fertalized.

So what is up with the Carnegie Mellon research factoid that approximately "68% of cats' dreams are nightmares"? Can't dream if you don't sleep, right? (I saw that factoid on my Google module.)

This is correct, because roughly 70% of cats are constantly in a frantic, worried state, when they daydream, and their minds wander, they tend to have nightmares.

Posted By: jerrod

I see. Thanks. It still seems a little odd to me though. I guess that is because whenever I "daydream", I still consciously control the "dream" events. Maybe I am the odd one (probably).

You're not a cat.

I won't ask.

what is he holding?

He appears to be holding a stick man with very small legs upside down.

Yes Athene, you are correct. It is a trumpet. He is blue and playing the blues.

Thank you.