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

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.