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 …

Simple Summary The responsibility to provide a complex environment and environmental
enrichment is an essential element of primate wellbeing programs that should be …

Sleep is fundamental to the health and fitness of all animals. The physiological importance
of sleep is underscored by the central role of homeostasis in determining sleep investment …

We examined whether ambient lighting conditions during extended wakefulness modulate
the homeostatic response to sleep loss as indexed by. slow wave sleep (SWS) and …

Lorises are a group of globally threatened strepsirrhine primates that exhibit many unusual
physiological and behavioral features, including a low metabolic rate, slow movement, and …

Organisms detect temperature signals through peripheral neurons, which relay them to
central circadian networks to drive adaptive behaviors. Despite recent advances in …

Simple Summary Recent advances in technology allow for the study of animal behaviours
through indirect observations. This facilitates research on cryptic animals for which direct …

Worldwide urban expansion and deforestation have caused a rapid decline of non-human
primates in recent decades. Yet, little is known to what extent these animals can tolerate …

Environmental variables have a major influence on the sleep patterns of animals, and can
be presumed to have a strong role in the evolutionary paths of sleep in humans. Despite this …

Sleep duration and lifespan vary greatly across Animalia. Human studies have
demonstrated that ageing reduces the ability to obtain deep restorative sleep, and this may …