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Swordfish feed daily, most often at night, when they rise to surface and near-surface waters in search of smaller fish. During the day, they commonly occur to depths of 550 m (1,800 ft; 300 fathoms) and have exceptionally been recorded as deep as 2,878 m (9,442 ft; 1,574 fathoms). [ 3 ]
Many parental species forego sleep at night and fan their eggs day and night for many days in a row. This has been observed in threespine stickleback , [ 34 ] convict cichlid and rainbow cichlid , [ 35 ] [ 36 ] various species of damselfish , [ 37 ] [ 38 ] smallmouth bass and largemouth bass , [ 39 ] [ 40 ] and the brown bullhead . [ 41 ]
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 term “comfort food” first appeared in a 1966 article in the Palm Beach Post newspaper, but people were likely eating chocolate after a heartbreak long before. The word was added to the ...
This means literally 'sleeping outside', from ἔξω, 'outside', and κοῖτος, 'bed', 'resting place', with the verb root κει-, 'to lie down' (not 'untruth'), [7] so named as flying fish were believed to leave the water to sleep ashore, [8] or due to flying fish flying and thus stranding themselves in boats.
Many organisms in the mesopelagic zone move up into the epipelagic zone at night, and retreat to the mesopelagic zone during the day, which is known as diel vertical migration. [8] These migrators can therefore avoid visual predators during the day and feed at night, while some of their predators also migrate up at night to follow the prey.
Reindeer are meandering animals. In fact, some reindeer migrate the farthest of any terrestrial animal. They trek north over 600 miles when summer begins and then move south again for winter.
To get through the many hours, people gather together and tell stories, seek guidance in the poems of the celebrated Persian poet Hafez, drink hot tea, and, of course, eat. The ceremony of staying ...