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A giraffe sleeps less than two hours a day
Most of that comes in short bouts, often standing, with deep sleep lasting only minutes Captive giraffes lie down briefly for the deepest phase and spend the rest of the night upright. Being tall and slow to rise makes long sleep risky in the wild. Young calves sleep far more than adults. It sits in Mondo's animals collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A giraffe sleeps less than two hours a day: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Most of that comes in short bouts, often standing, with deep sleep lasting only minutes. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a animals fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.