{"id":2678,"date":"2014-03-01T16:48:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/save-our-green.com\/allpost\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2015-06-16T13:13:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T07:43:35","slug":"is-it-true-that-ants-never-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/is-it-true-that-ants-never-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it true that Ants never sleep?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ants never sleep?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2711\" style=\"width: 529px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/antneversleep1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2711\" class=\"     wp-image-2711\" title=\"Is it true that Ants never sleep?\" src=\"http:\/\/save-our-green.com\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/antneversleep1.jpg\" alt=\"Is it true that Ants never sleep?\" width=\"519\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/antneversleep1.jpg 641w, https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/antneversleep1-300x95.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is it true that Ants never sleep?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It hasn&#8217;t been studied much, but some scientists say that<!--more--> yes, ants do sleep. It&#8217;s not exactly like human sleep, but workers had an average of 253 \u2018sleep episodes\u2019 a day, that lasted an average of 1.1 minutes, for a total of approximately 4.8 hours of sleep overall. Whereas fire ant queens only experienced 92 sleep episodes, but each lasted an average of 6 minutes, for a total of 9.4 hours of sleep overall.(Source: BBC)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2680\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/queenandworkerant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2680\" class=\"  wp-image-2680 size-full\" title=\"Queen and worker ants\" src=\"http:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/queenandworkerant.jpg\" alt=\"Queen and worker ants\" width=\"575\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/queenandworkerant.jpg 575w, https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/queenandworkerant-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen and worker ants<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The queens fell asleep at far more regular intervals than their subjects. In fact, the queens even synchronised their naps, with all three queens dozing together.\u00a0Although the function of sleep is still unknown!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ants never sleep? It hasn&#8217;t been studied much, but some scientists say that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,31],"tags":[1179,1180],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earth","category-technology-galaxy","tag-ants-never-sleep","tag-sleeping-ants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}