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VERY little is known about the sleep of whales. They seldom sleep at the surface. Scoresby, speaking of the Greenland whale, says: “Whales are seldom found sleeping, yet instances occasionally occur, in calm weather, amongst ice.” I have in my possession a large number of log-books of whaling voyages to the Greenland Sea and do not find a single example recorded. The recently published log-books of Capt. Scoresby, senior, tell the same tale.
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GRAY, R. The Sleep of Whales. Nature 119, 636–637 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119636c0
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