Finch Bird

A recent scientific study states that the human being sleeps like a bird. In other words, we can say that a bird slept like us. The ornithologists have found that a bird called zebra finch has a sleep structure similar to man and other mammals. This research was done at Salk Institute for Biological Research in San Diego, California. The electroencephalograms were done on the birds and shows that the birds have rapid-eye movement sleep and slow-wave sleep like man. The transition stages and the  quick spikes are similar to man! This is a mammalian sleep pattern. Phillip Steven Low and his colleagues at this institute made this astonishing discovery!! The birds lack the neocortex, a part of the brain thought necessary for such patterns.The new discovery throws light on the following things:The similarity between our pattern and the birds pattern of sleep.The bird’s brain structure has some similarity with us.Darwin may have discovered natural selection studying finches at Galapagos Island, now scientists find a similarity in their sleep patterns with mammals. Human and birds may be markedly differently but that difference sublimes when we sleep. It is amazing, isn’t it?