The sociality of sleep in animal groups
Group-living animals sleep together, yet most research treats sleep as an individual process. Here, we argue that social interactions during the sleep period contribute in important, but largely overlooked, ways to animal groups' social dynamics, while patterns of social interaction and the structure of social connections within animal groups play important, but poorly understood, roles in shaping sleep behavior. Leveraging field-appropriate methods, such as direct and video-based observation, and increasingly common on-animal motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers), behavioral indicators can be tracked to measure sleep in multiple individuals in a group of animals simultaneously. Sleep proximity networks and sleep timing networks can then be used to investigate the collective dynamics of sleep in wild group-living animals.
Authors
- Marie J. E. Charpentier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6530-5874)
- Margaret C. Crofoot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0056-7950)
- Pritish Chakravarty (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2975-6253)
- Alison M. Ashbury (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5181-4667)
- Roi Harel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9733-8643)
- Daniela Christina Rößler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4678-2231)
- Peipei Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3616-7374)
- Barbara Fruth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9217-3053)
- Aya Goldshtein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2291-2222)
- Ariana Strandburg‐Peshkin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2985-6788)
- Giulia Gaggioni
- Caroline Schuppli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6318-2815)
- Chase L. Núñez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3273-6966)
- Gabriella E. C. Gall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4947-3434)
- Katherine R. S. Snell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3720-4579)
- Nadja Geiger
- Josefine Iffelsberger
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- École Pratique des Hautes Études (FR)
- University of Konstanz (DE)
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (FR)
- Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (DE)
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Published
- 2024-09-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.07.011
- Citations
- 14
- Primary Topic
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.80
Funders
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- European Commission
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft