Do humans sleep more or less than most other creatures?

It's very difficult to say since animals have very different things that could be considered "sleep" and very different patterns from humans. First, human needs for sleep depend on the life stage. Babies sleep for most of the day while adults only require as little as 7 hours sleep. read more

Most of us feel like we need more sleep, but as a species we have actually evolved to sleep less than our ape and monkey relatives. read more

Humans sleep less than many other omnivores but otherwise not unusually much or unusually little in comparison with other mammals. Many herbivores, like Ruminantia (such as cattle), spend much of their wake time in a state of drowsiness, [further explanation needed] which perhaps could partly explain their relatively low need for sleep. read more