{"id":2919,"date":"2025-06-30T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/orangutans-have-power-naps-to-make-up-for-lost-sleep\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:01:09","slug":"orangutans-have-power-naps-to-make-up-for-lost-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/orangutans-have-power-naps-to-make-up-for-lost-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Orangutans have power naps to make up for lost sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-30 14:01:07<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Orangutans enjoy power naps.<BR><br \/>\nScientists studied 53 of the wild primates for more than a year in the rainforests of the Indonesian island of Sumatra and found that they mirror humans by catching up on shuteye during the day if they get less rest at night.<BR><br \/>\nOrangutans typically get nearly 13 hours of sleep at night in big leafy nests built high in trees. But when their slumbers are cut short, they make up with a 76-minute power nap \u2014 or longer if the previous night was shorter. <BR><br \/>\nAlison Ashbury, the study&#8217;s first author and a scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour and the University of Konstanz in Germany, said: &#8220;Moving through the canopy, finding food, solving problems, navigating social relationships; these are all tiring and cognitively demanding tasks.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;When an orangutan doesn&#8217;t get enough sleep, it does what any sleep-deprived human might do: it climbs into bed, lies down, and takes a nap.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-30 14:01:07 Orangutans enjoy power naps. Scientists studied 53 of the wild primates for more than a year in the rainforests of the Indonesian island of Sumatra and found that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}