04-02-2011, 07:24 PM | #1 |
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Horse sleep patterns
I'm statting up centaurs in my setting, I'd like to duplicate a horse's sleep patterns. Specifically, a horse needs only about 2 1/2 hours of sleep a day, and usually in short standing naps of about 15 minutes. Every few days, it needs to lie down for a deeper sleep of an hour or two, needing to reach REM sleep.
Obviously, they should have Less Sleep (about 3 hours a day, average). For the ability to sleep standing up and in short bursts, does a Perk (Power Naps) sound about right?
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04-02-2011, 08:08 PM | #2 |
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Re: Horse sleep patterns
I'm not particularly familiar with horse sleep cycles. If the horse can sleep "whenever its convenient" as long as it adds up to 2.5 hrs it's definitely a perk, sounds like a variation on Deep Sleeper. If the horse needs to sleep on a set schedule that just happens to be broken up into short naps ("naps from 4:30 to 4:45 AM, from 8 to 8:15 AM, lies down from 12:45 to 1:45 PM" etc) I'd call it a 0 point feature.
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04-02-2011, 09:19 PM | #3 |
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Re: Horse sleep patterns
In my personnal experience most horse nap when ever they have a chance and nothing interesting is going on.
Along the same lines I could see one of those oh so popular bunny biomod creatures as having a similar sleeping style. Dont think I have ever seen my bunny sleep for more than 20 minutes at a time. |
04-03-2011, 04:49 AM | #4 |
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Re: Horse sleep patterns
My understanding is that horses are the opposite of deep sleepers. Probably a natural reaction to the fact that people occasionally throw a halter and saddle on them.
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04-03-2011, 10:22 PM | #6 |
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Re: Horse sleep patterns
Not to be picky, but anything that doesn't kill them doesn't result in natural selection.
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04-03-2011, 10:29 PM | #7 |
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04-04-2011, 09:38 AM | #8 |
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Re: Horse sleep patterns
The wild horses who were jumped by predators while sleeping (including hungry anthropoids) definitely had a reason to sleep shallowly.
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04-04-2011, 10:11 AM | #9 |
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Re: Horse sleep patterns
Horses that escape a saddle escape Gelding too...
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04-04-2011, 03:47 PM | #10 |
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Re: Horse sleep patterns
Yup, sleeping deeply gets you eaten by cave lions and cro-mags if you're a would-be ancestor of modern domestic horses.
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