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Sleep Nap Snooze

How Worker Ants Sleep

250 naps a day

Book spread titled Feeling Antsy? showing a large painted ant on a yellow, pink and blue graffiti wall.

From the spread “Power Napper” in Sleep, Nap, Snooze.

A worker ant takes roughly 250 naps a day, each about a minute long.

All those little naps add up to only a few hours of rest.

Queen ants sleep far longer and deeper than the workers do.

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See Worker Ant in the book