6 Surprising Animal Sleep Habits

Otters

Otters just might win the award for most adorable sleeping habits of the animal kingdom. They usually sleep on their backs while bobbing on the surface of the water, and they sometimes hold hands with their buddy while asleep so they don’t drift apart. Other times, they’ll wrap themselves in seaweed to keep anchored in place. As many as 100 otters have been observed wrapped together with seaweed in otter “rafts.” Mother otters also use seaweed to wrap their pups onto their chest, since the babies can’t swim when they’re first born.

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