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Seals Able to Live on Two Hours of Sleep

- Recently, experiments have taken place in Monterey Bay, California on the elephant seals. It was discovered that they, like African elephants, are able to function all day with only two hours of sleep.
- Comparatively, other animals, such as lions, sleep for up to 20 hours per day.
- Although elephant seals sleep for as little as two hours per night when in the water, they sleep for more than ten hours a day when they live above ground.
- To further understand this newfound information, Kendall Bar created a head cap for elephants seals, with sensors that allow the researchers to detect brain waves and determine when the seals are sleeping. This revealed that when underwater, seals are able to function through only two hours of rest because they decide this into thirty minute intervals. When they get tired they take a nap for thirty minutes and wake up full of energy.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/elephant-seals-sleep-two-hours-california-ocean

Animals Eat Their Kids for Breakfast
- Cannibalism is occurs in the animal kingdom, and is quite normal, compared to the negative views of it found in humanity.
- Filial is when (many) organisms eat their children if they are crippled in anyway, or the parents simply can’t find anything else to eat to survive. This can also occur when the children are still inside the egg. This is due to the body’s natural survival instinct, because although they are their kids, they (kids) provide great nutrients which may be hard to find.
- A more violent version of this would be infanticide. This is when a male kills children in the group that aren’t their own, due to their territorial instincts. This often occurs in lion packs, when the females have cubs with the previous male leader, who was beaten and killed by a new leader.
- Another instance of cannibalism abong family is when siblings turn on each other because there aren’t enough resources in their environment to survive.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/cannibalism-common-leopards-fish-invertebrates

Pandemic Finally Over
- On May 5, 2023, the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 was over.
- For many, the pandemic was a time of growth and change. It lasted three years and changed many lives.
- Some people learnt more about themselves and became closer to their family, while many others lost their jobs and struggled to find food.
- This pandemic had also hurt many. It took innocent lives and broke the hearts of their loved ones.
- COVID-19 stopped society from moving and has finally ended, which brings up the question, how did you change? As well as the many new perspectives of life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/learning/what-does-the-end-of-the-pandemic-emergencymean-to-you.html

Tragic Death of Three Elder’s
- A few days ago, an 18 year old man shot and killed three elderly women in New Mexico.
- The victims were Shirley Voility who was 79, Melody Ivie, who was 73, and Gwendolyn Schofield, who was 97.
- He killed them with an illegally purchased gun, which was the AR-15 rifle.
- When further investigated, it came out that he had mental health problems and was struggling due to his parents divorce. SOURCE???????