It is not clear to me whether you KNOW that there is no atonia in
sleeping birds that perch or are hypothesising this and asking for
confirming or disconfirming evidence (difficulties of writing in a
language other than your own).
What are the possibilities for selective atonia? e.g. atonia of wing
musclles but preserved tone for feet?
Perhaps you are already aware (maybe this suggested the idea?) of the
standard paradigm for depriving rats of REM sleep: making THEM perch or
doing a near equivalent act.
F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
New York Neuropsychology Group
In <3.0.3.32.19990726123952.00686670 at xerxes.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr>
croce at crbm.cnrs-mop.fr (Ariane Croce) writes:
>>>>I will want to compare the paradoxal sleep of birds : the hen, one
bird
>that sleep to perch, and the partridge and the pheasant two birds that
>sleep on the ground. You will know differents informations on the
life of
>these birds, and the lasting of paradoxal sleep of these birds ?
>I will want to see if the lasting of paradoxal sleep influence the
>induction of atonia muscular of these birds. Because the hen sleep to
>perch, there is not atonia muscular, and on the contrary, the
partridge
>sleep on the ground and there is atonia muscular. Also, you will
>information on atonia muscular of birds ?
>
