Orangutans have power naps to make up for lost sleep

Orangutans enjoy power candies.

Scientists examined 53 of the wild primates for more than a year in the rainforest of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, and found that if they listened less at night, they caught Shutete during the day.

Orangutans usually sleep for about 13 hours at night in large -leafy nests built on trees. However, when the slums are cut short, they compensate for a 76-minute power candy-or if it is shorter the night before.

Alison Ashbury, the first author of the study and a scientist at the Institute of Max Planck Animal Behavior and the University of Konstanz in Germany, said, “Moving throughout the canopy, finding food, solving problems, traveling social relations, all of these are exhausting and cognitive duties.

“When an orangutan cannot sleep enough, he does what any person can do: he climbs, sleeps and cuts.”