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How Elephant Seals Sleep at Sea

Sleeping at sea can be quite hard. Different mammals have different ways of doing it. Some fur seals and dolphins do that uni-hemispheric sleep thing. So, you know, if a predator comes along, they can be awake really quickly and run away. But this researcher wanted to know, okay, how do the elephant seals manage it? She invented a kind of device like a sort of electroencephalography device. It can read brain waves, heart rates, as well as logging where the seal is, the depth and how they're moving.

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