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The Effects of Sleep on Whales and Dolphins
In theory yes obviously their gills are how they get the oxygen through in from the water into their system and they're very very delicate. Could drown them if you pulled them backwards through the water. So yes that would essentially ruin well ruin a fish's day for one to the better phrase. And dreaming is such an interesting thing to think about as well because here we're talking about whales and fish and actually things species like octopus cephalopods also we've been tracking dreaming in them. They have incredibly extensive intellectual capability basically and something we aren't really appreciating until now until we're documenting this so the dreaming side is really fascinating.
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