SLEEP WITH EYES OPEN
Would it .not be strange to sleep without shutting your eyes? This is what ordinary fishes do. I'or they are without eyelids. They are not tiie only animals like this, fl' you look at the snakes in the zoo For a minute or two you will nootice that they always seem to have their eyes open In a fixed stare, although they may nppear to be. and perhaps are, fast asleep. This is beemise the snakes, like the fish, have no proper eyelids which they can close. Hut there can be no doubt that when little fishes rest at the bottom of a pond or river with their eyes open it is because they cannot shut the 111.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 36, 1 April 1942, Page 6
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122SLEEP WITH EYES OPEN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 36, 1 April 1942, Page 6
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