Walruses are able to go without sleep for 84 hours
I got a job as a shepherd and it's so tiringI can't count my flock without falling asleep
Koalas can sleep up to 22 hours a day
Sleep is a bizarre activity where, while the sun is gone, one goes to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything one knows and understands and then when the sun returns, one resumes one's life.
Sleep is a morsel of death borrowed to keep up and renew that part of life which has been exhausted by the day.
Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.
Albatross can sleep while flying
Dolphins sleep with one eye open
Sleep is allowing gravity to hold us and recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours (the tensions and terrors of our individual days), stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.
Sleep is necessary for most people --- Less than 5% of the population needs just 4-5 hours of sleep
The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps