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An updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset
Description
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.
Usage
msleep
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
Details
Additional variables order, conservation status and vore were added from wikipedia.