For humans, the thought of being able to sleep whilst standing up can be pretty baffling. Horses, along with bison, zebras, and elephants are pretty unusual among other animals for their ability to ...

Welcome to Año Nuevo State Park, California’s best-kept coastal secret hiding in plain sight near Pescadero. The first time I ventured to Año Nuevo, I arrived wearing boat shoes and designer ...

Elephant Rocks State Park in Belleview, Missouri is the geological equivalent of finding out your quiet neighbor is secretly ...

Namibia is a southwestern African nation roughly twice the size of California, known for having the world’s oldest desert.

Elephant parenting is a type of parenting style that prioritizes forming close bonds and maintaining communication, while ...

Elephants sleep for only about 2 to 4 hours a day, often while standing. They can go several days without sleep, especially during migration. Their sleep is usually broken into short intervals and ...

The difference in sleep times between elephants in captivity and in the wild likely has to do with food, Manger said. African elephants can eat on the order of 700 to 900 pounds of food a day.

In the wild, African elephants (the largest land mammals on the planet) average a total daily sleep time of two hours. This mostly happens between 2 a.m and 6 a.m. This is the shortest sleep time ...

These elephants sleep standing up mainly, but every three or four days, they get down on the ground to sleep. Captive elephants sleep a little longer in general and have been spotted sleeping standing ...

He explained that elephants usually sleep for a couple of hours at once, then get up and move around before going down for their next lot of sleep.

Sleep experts are taking the study into account, but others say it's possible wild elephants have evolved to thrive with little or no sleep. The enormous mammals are busy eating 17 to 18 hours each ...