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Sandpipers achieve world record for sleeplessness

You may think you can cope without sleep, but you have nothing on male pectoral sandpipers. Some of these birds can go more than a fortnight with hardly any sleep – the most extreme case of uninduced sleep deprivation known in any animal.

What's more, the males that sleep the least father the most offspring, suggesting they benefit from their lack of slumber.

Pectoral sandpipers (Calidris melanotos) breed on the Arctic tundra of Asia and North America. Males don't help with childcare – instead they try to mate with as many females as possible.

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