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This is an updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset. Updated sleep times and weights were taken from V. M. Savage and G. B. West. A quantitative, theoretical framework for understanding mammalian sleep. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (3):1051-1056, 2007.

Usage

msleep

Format

A data frame with 83 rows and 11 variables

  • name. common name

  • genus.

  • vore. carnivore, omnivore or herbivore?

  • order.

  • conservation. the conservation status of the animal

  • sleep_total. total amount of sleep, in hours

  • sleep_rem. rem sleep, in hours

  • sleep_cycle. length of sleep cycle, in hours

  • awake. amount of time spent awake, in hours

  • brainwt. brain weight in kilograms

  • bodywt. body weight in kilograms

Details

Additional variables order, conservation status and vore were added from wikipedia.