Wild Elephants Sleep Just 2 Hours a Day, Puzzling Scientists in UCLA Study

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According to the study, the elephants` sleeping times are fewer than the gray whales` nine hours per day and the giraffes` 4.
6 hours per day.
Remarkably, these insomniac elephants traveled nearly 19 miles in 10 hours without rest and stayed up for a record 46 hours straight, according to the study conducted by the UCLA Center for Sleep Research and the nonprofit research group Elephants Without Borders.
Scientists have noted that the elephants` non-sleeping abilities are a new record for a mammal`s sleeping pattern and compared it to captive elephants` sleeping patterns of five to six hours a day.
"The elephants were studied for continuous 35 day periods [from a distance]," Jerry Siegel, director of the Center for Sleep Research, told NBC News.
"Elephants move with their herd and move very frequently, so animals sleeping a lot would be left behind.