PollyStop
B1 · Dans le rythme 172 mots · 2 min

This Bird Sleeps While Flying

Illustration de This Bird Sleeps While Flying

Avant de lire

Avant de lire

Écoutez Polly la lire
Voix : anglais

A frigatebird can stay in the air over open ocean for days at a time. It cannot land on water, because its feathers are not waterproof, so it simply does not come down. That raises an obvious question. When does it sleep?

Researchers answered it by fitting small brain recorders to frigatebirds and letting them go. The birds flew for up t...

Researchers answered it by fitting small brain recorders to frigatebirds and letting them go. The birds flew for up to ten days without stopping. They did sleep in the air, and often only half of the brain slept at once, with the other half awake and one eye still open. When they were circling upward on warm rising air, the half watching the turn tended to be the half still awake.

The amount is the surprising part. Out at sea the birds slept about forty minutes in a whole day, in short bursts of ...

The amount is the surprising part. Out at sea the birds slept about forty minutes in a whole day, in short bursts of a few seconds each. Back on land the same birds slept more than twelve hours. So they can run on almost no sleep for a week, and then they go home and pay it all back.

Voilà l'histoire.

Votre tutrice IA

Maintenant, dites-le à voix haute. Parlez de cette histoire avec Polly.

Polly est la tutrice vocale de PollyStop. Elle discute avec vous, à voix haute, d'histoires comme celle-ci.

Obtenez PollyStop gratuitement.

  • Chaque jour, une nouvelle histoire graduée, avec audio.
  • Enregistrez les mots rencontrés et révisez-les plus tard.
  • Entraînement à l'oral avec retour.
  • Polly, la tutrice vocale, s'ouvre à davantage d'apprenants.

Continuez à apprendre avec PollyStop

Écoutez, enregistrez des mots, entraînez-vous

Obtenir l'appli