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If getting a child to sleep can be an adventure…

…how do animals do it? Mic Schut asked that question at the end of one very long bedtime, and then couldn't stop looking for the answer.

The research was stranger than expected. Elephants nap standing up for barely two hours. Dolphins rest one half of the brain and keep swimming with the other. Worker ants take hundreds of one-minute naps a day. Sloths sleep upside down without even gripping hard.

Mic paints in layers — spray paint, ink, torn paper, photography — so the animals came out loud and unruly, more street wall than nursery pastel. That contrast is the point: a calm subject, painted wide awake.

Sleep, Nap, Snooze is the first book in the DidYouKnow? series, and this site is slowly becoming its bigger home: a place to look up how any animal sleeps.