Elephants rarely sleeps, according to new report.

Elephants are insomniacs. A new research says the biggest animal in the animal world hardly ever sleep, getting around two hours of shut-eye per night and only in the wee hours of the morning, researchers said Wednesday.

The findings in the journal PLOS ONE are based on two female wild African elephants — living in Botswana’s Chobe National Park — who appear to sleep the least of any known mammals to date.

Researchers fitted the elephants’ trunks with movement trackers, similar to personal fitness monitors, and their necks with GPS collars complete with gyroscopes, and followed their activities for 35 days.

Paul Manager from the School of Anatomical Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa who led the research, said they found that the elephants slept only two hours per day on average, usually sometime between 2:00 am and 6:00 am.
AFP.