Show sleepless fishes and insects the exports experts in the different branches of the sciences are now pretty well agreed that there are overal several s species of fish reptiles and insects which NIi ieli never sleep during their stay in this world among the lie fish it is now posit positively Nely known that the pike the salmon salmo a and d the goldfish never sleep at all also that there are several others of the lish fish family that never sleep more than a few minutes during a month ind and which N melt take no rest whatever durin during the breeding season there are dozens of species of flies files mostly tropical which never indulge in slumber and froid three to five species of serpents on each of the continents which the naturalists natura lists have never yet been able to catch napping some years ago a theory founded on the observations of sir john lubbock and others was to alit effect that the fint ant is another of the insects that are never caught asleep at that time 1874 the result of these observations ser rations ions excited consia considerable erable comment and it was declared to be the only exception known iti in the animal WO world ria to the general rule that sleep s a necessary consequence of labor more extended observations however have proven that there are several exceptions to the general rule of periodical slumber in the animal creation st louis republic |