This is an updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset. Updated sleep times and weights were taken from V. M. Savage and G. B. West. A quantitative, theoretical framework for understanding mammalian sleep. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (3):1051-1056, 2007.
Format
A data frame with 83 rows and 11 variables:
- name
common name
- genus
- vore
carnivore, omnivore or herbivore?
- order
- conservation
the conservation status of the animal
- sleep_total
total amount of sleep, in hours
- sleep_rem
rem sleep, in hours
- sleep_cycle
length of sleep cycle, in hours
- awake
amount of time spent awake, in hours
- brainwt
brain weight in kilograms
- bodywt
body weight in kilograms