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Re:Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria by otoburb on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @09:03AM (#44733685)
Maybe not 'exclusively' slept, but koalas[1] sleep for a majority of the day (16-20 hours) in order to digest highly toxic eucalyptus leaves which constitute the main portion of their diet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala

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Re:Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria by jjk166 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @10:58AM (#44735092)
But that's a case of requiring additional sleep for a specific purpose
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Re:Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria by lr4444lr on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @09:30AM (#44733946)
Fascinating. I wonder whether they'd sleep less if fed a less toxic, more easily digestible diet.
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Re:Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria by SAI_Peregrinus on Thursday July 31, 2025 @07:46PM (#44751504)
Unfortunately they can't recognize anything but Eucalyptus leaves, on the branch, as food. A pile of the leaves isn't food to them, they won't eat it.
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Re:Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria by 0cf8612b2e1e on Thursday July 31, 2025 @09:04PM (#44751970)
Weird niche to corner! Exclusively eat the poison nobody else wants to the exclusion of anything else.
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Re:Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria by 4b11b4 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @10:09AM (#44734447)
Maybe I should really lean into that nap after eating..
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Re:Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria by _alternator_ on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @11:08AM (#44735223)
Or quit eating poison :P
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