Sleeping into the Wild: insights from Seals and Penguins
Date: 8 July 2024
Webinar Topic: Sleeping into the Wild: insights from Seals and Penguins
Moderator: Dr. Pierre-Hervé Luppi and Dr. Paul-Antoine Liboure
Description:
All animals need to sleep, but how do they manage this need when sleep poses a high risk or must be balanced with time for foraging, reproducing, or protecting their offspring?
Moderated by our President, Dr. Pierre-Hervé Luppi and Dr. Paul-Antoine Libourel, this webinar featured a panel of speakers:
- Dr. Paul-Antoine Libourel, Researcher from the Neuroscience Research Centre of Lyon and Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Montpellier.
- Dr. Jessica Kendall-Bar, Marine Biologist from the University of California, San Diego.
- Dr. Gianina Ungurean, Sleep Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence in Munich and the University Medical Center Göttingen
- Dr. Markus Schmidt, Physician, Deputy Head of Sleep-Wake Epilepsy Center SWEZ, from Universitätsklinik für Neurologie, Bern.
Discover how elephant seals and chinstrap penguins have evolved remarkable sleeping strategies to survive in harsh environments. This session showcases these examples followed by a discussion with sleep experts, highlighting how sleep can be adaptive in the wild and revealing our limited understanding of this fundamental behaviour. The importance of studying the ecology of sleep and the methodologies involved is also explored.