WHY HOSPITALIZED HORSES HAVE TROUBLE SLEEPING
Mar 25, 2022
2 minutes
For horses, as for people, a hospital stay can be exhausting because the environment is so disruptive to sleep patterns---and the effect is even worse for those with arthritis. That’s what researchers in Brazil found in a recent study.
Horses can doze while standing but to achieve restorative rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep a horse must lie down in either sternal (propped up on his chest) or lateral
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