This is an updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset. Updated sleep times and weights were taken from V. M. Savage and G. B. West. A quantitative, theoretical framework for understanding mammalian sleep. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (3):1051-1056, 2007.
msleep
A data frame with 83 rows and 11 variables
common name
carnivore, omnivore or herbivore?
the conservation status of the animal
total amount of sleep, in hours
rem sleep, in hours
length of sleep cycle, in hours
amount of time spent awake, in hours
brain weight in kilograms
body weight in kilograms
Additional variables order, conservation status and vore were added from wikipedia.