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How can a dolphin sleep without drowning?

Past stat · 2026-10-06 UTC

The answer

Cetaceans use unihemispheric slow-wave sleep: one half of the brain sleeps while the other stays awake enough to surface and breathe. Both-hemisphere shutdown would be fatal in water.

Correct answer: It rests one brain hemisphere at a time and keeps swimming and breathing

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