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Sleep can follow a physiological or behavioral definition. In the physiological sense, sleep is a state characterized by reversible unconsciousness, special brainwave patterns, sporadic eye movement, loss of muscle tone (possibly with some exceptions; see below regarding the sleep of birds and of aquatic mammals), and a compensatory increase following deprivation of the state, this last known ...
The Sleeping Gypsy (French: La Bohémienne endormie) is an 1897 oil on canvas painting by the French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night. It is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, to which it was donated by Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in 1939.
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Pages for logged out editors learn more. ... Printable version; In other projects ... Sleeping Lion may refer to: Sleeping lions, a children's game; Sleeping Lion ...
Crepuscular, a classification of animals that are active primarily during twilight, making them similar to nocturnal animals. Diurnality, plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day and sleeping at night. Cathemeral, a classification of organisms with sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night.
The Sleeping Lion originally stood on top of a plinth, on which the names of the fallen were written. In 1932 the monument was moved to the Academic Square (Polish: Plac Akademicki). In 1945, during the Second World War the monument's plinth was destroyed. Afterwards the lion was moved to the city park.
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