] Answer the following questions.
1) What do little birds and chickens do while sleeping?
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Unlike humans and other mammals that enter a state of relatively complete unconsciousness while sleeping, birds can more carefully control their sleep.Birds often use unihemispheric slow-wave sleep (USWS), literally sleepingwith one eye open and only half their brain resting at once.
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Birds sleep in their nests, right? The answer to this question may surprise you. Nests are not used for sleeping in the bird world. Nests, for the birds that make them, are used for housing eggs and chicks. Once these chicks leave the nest, birds don’t typically return. When nesting season is over, nests will often be covered in dirt, droppings, and feathers from the fledglings. This can attract parasites and predators, and that’s not somewhere that birds want to be.
So if birds don’t sleep in their nests, then where do they sleep? The big answer is, away from predators. Depending on the type of bird, they may sleep in different places and in different ways.
Songbirds need to keep off the ground to avoid cats and other ground predators. However, they also must keep out of open spaces to avoid owls, which are nocturnal and search for food at night. These birds are often looking for dense foliage or brush to take cover in overnight. This foliage acts as camouflage keeping them safe and secure.