David Feldman. When Do Fish Sleep? (1989) Second in Feldman’s series of “imponderables”, which attempt to answer those nagging questions that our high school classes didn’t cover. Such as the title question. Do fish sleep? Well, they do exhibit episodes of near-zero activity, which I suppose could be seen as sleep. Wrasses cover themselves in a thick blanket of mucus, not to keep warm, but to obliterate their odour, which would attract predators.A nicely done potato chip book, with an index, which makes it a useful reference for the times when you can’t be bothered to start up your device and search online. Online searching for fishes’ sleep patterns offers so many hits that deciding which one to open may be more trouble than opening the index in this book and finding the answer on page 161 to 162.
I like these books (and many others like them, for example the urban legend compendiums), hence ***
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