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metacafe.com — Horses can stand on their feet for long periods, much longer than other domestic animals. They can sleep without lying down, thanks to a unique system adaptation :

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  • GeorgeCarlin, on 05/15/2008, -0/+49Very interesting. Now if I can figure out how to do this at the office that would be perfect.
    • LUCCHINA, on 05/15/2008, -5/+10@GeorgeCarlin : He he ! So you'll be able to run faster when your Boss will arrive...
      • SuperWinner, on 05/15/2008, -1/+24@LUCCHINA : I replied to your comment, and I have your name in there so you know this reply is to you and what you said.
        • LUCCHINA, on 05/15/2008, -0/+9SuperWinner, you are wrong !
          It's true only, if your setting preferences is on 'sort by date (show all)' ;.-D
        • SuperWinner, on 05/15/2008, -0/+9Well, you really told me....
        • nreynolds, on 05/15/2008, -4/+2@ LUCCHINA (you can do this when it won't let you go to a deeper thread)
          oh yeah? well... that comma shouldn't be there!!!!
    • DykeStew, on 05/15/2008, -3/+0Dykestew FTW!!!
  • taiSiwaporn, on 05/15/2008, -3/+19:)
  • nicolaport, on 05/15/2008, -6/+9surprising!
    • LUCCHINA, on 05/15/2008, -3/+2Sure, I'm not sure a lot of people knows that fact.
  • Griny, on 05/15/2008, -3/+6Amazing, I suppose horses would be pleased with that solution :)
    • ElAssoWipo, on 05/15/2008, -1/+6It has a good side and a bad side... A broken ankle can be a fatal injury for a horse. They pump blood through their legs.
      • bbardlbradd, on 05/15/2008, -2/+2It's also pretty hard for a horse to break an ankle while sleeping. The only horse we've had to put to sleep from a broken ankle, deserved a broken ankle. You almost always have to have a horse put to sleep unless you have $$$$$ because their ankles are used to much that there's really no way for it to heal correctly... sad.
  • samimy, on 05/15/2008, -11/+3nice information again ........... 5 stars !......................................... ohh sorry this is digg,
    dugg dugg :)
  • roosterjack, on 05/15/2008, -8/+4What an amazing video. Thanks for sharing.
  • onionbagel724, on 05/15/2008, -1/+67fish can also sleep without lying down
  • yumlum, on 05/15/2008, -7/+5really amazing video
  • Gillos, on 05/15/2008, -11/+3WTF is this? SOMETHING EDUCASIONAL ON DIGG? WTF? If I wanted to learn something i'd go to school. And don;t betrying to make fun of me for my spelling or grammer because I don't five a f***!
    • RanIntoTheDevil, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5"And don;t betrying to make fun of me for my spelling or grammer because I don't five a f***!"
      Yeah, well, it is pretty obvious.
    • LUCCHINA, on 05/15/2008, -4/+2Nobody will have fun about your spelling, i guess... We are not here to insult or be insulted ! But, YOU insult people : This is the Real problem ! Your problem, i should say.
  • bxblox, on 05/15/2008, -0/+17People can sleep standing if they have something to hold on to. Seen it on the subway dozens of times, until the train makes a sudden jerk and slams them into another person or the wall.
    • LUCCHINA, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4'if they have something to hold on to' ... yes. But not the case for horses. Their leg are 'locked'...So they don't fall.
    • bbardlbradd, on 05/15/2008, -2/+1I thought for a second there that you were talking about the person waking up from the *train* slamming into another person or a wall...

      Can't beat getting lolz from your own stupidity. I am now 100% lolz efficient. Free lolz all around.
    • Sweno, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4They don't fall because they have (at least) three points of contact with the ground. Which means that they have a stable base.
      Humans don't have that, so we need to grab onto a third point to stop from falling over.

      You too can lock you legs, so you don't need a lot of effort to stand up, but maintaing your balance over the heels of your feet is hard (hence the need for a handhold)

      I was half expecting some sort of diagram that at least showed how the bones and muscles were arranged to allow this wonderful ability, instead of just video of horses falling asleep standing up.
  • possiblyneil, on 05/15/2008, -1/+14I think that cows also have this ability. Anyone here ever heard of cow tipping?
    • EH90, on 05/15/2008, -1/+11Sorry dude, but it's an urban myth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tipping
      • breakerjump, on 05/15/2008, -6/+2Cow tipping is NOT a myth ... in our version, we would idle our truck (usually our 73 Bronco) right up behind a cow (cows DO sleep standing up sometimes, or at least doze) and then tap it in the back of its hind legs. This stuns them for a few seconds - just long enough for someone to jump out the back of the Bronco and hop up on the cow's back.

        Chaos ensued...
        • RxDaniel, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1That isn't anything like cow tipping.
      • bbardlbradd, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Cow tipping is not a myth, and while you may see nearly ever cow lying down at night, they all are fully capable of sleeping (if not just day dreaming) standing up. I lived in Visalia Ca, for some time and I've seen people do this. I wasn't part of it because I know about bulls, and don't want to be raped or pillaged by a soon to be hamburger or taco, but I have seen them fall, and with only three people. I doubt you could do it w/ one though.

        Usually there are cows that stay awake @ night though, and they moo when you come close because all they know is that people mean food or... "transportation", so they wake up the cows and... then you get raped by the bulls.
      • famousdave, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2Hi, I have lived in Iowa for the last 30 years. For you to tell me cow tipping is a myth is to me telling someone in California that Hybrid Cars are a myth. Been there, done that, cows get tipped, humans rule.
  • MasterThief117, on 05/15/2008, -1/+19A horse is a horse, of course, of course...
    • Lith25, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4And no one can talk to a horse of course
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  • shyboy2008, on 05/15/2008, -12/+5unique system adaptation? uhhhhh its called God
    • neuro420, on 05/15/2008, -1/+11Only god could create someone that stupid.
    • ctrlv, on 05/15/2008, -5/+5not on digg it isn't. god isn't a cool word here don't you know? how dare you have an opinion of your own. why, you must be stupid.
      • Joe_rigby, on 05/15/2008, -4/+5Yea, I mean most likely sharing the exact same opinion of your parents religion wise because of the indoctrination you received since birth is soooooo having an opinion of your own.

        I wish I were cool like you.
        • grimward, on 05/15/2008, -2/+3I wish I was generalizing everybody just like you too!
        • ctrlv, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2First, I'm not even religious, and second - anyone that merely believes in a 'god' doesn't automatically mean they were brainwashed by their parents into the same religion as them. Dumb Joe is dumb.
  • AutomaticTLC, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9I was half expecting someone to run up and knock the horse over at the end.
  • Princeamor, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7Good info, but I don't think I'll be needing it.
  • gonegirlgone, on 05/15/2008, -0/+9solution to what?!? find a cure for my insomnia and ill call that a *****' sleep solution...
  • demmie07, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3I love horses .... Ummmm
  • longlukey, on 05/15/2008, -3/+4i tried falling asleep standing up when my school was in the gym and we were at like an awards ceremony and we were all sitting on metal folding chairs. The SECOND i fell asleep i began to fall but i caught myself on some chairs. People said it was the weirdest thing they've seen in while
    • Akaji, on 05/15/2008, -0/+11"i tried falling asleep standing up ... we were all sitting on metal folding chairs."
  • PussInBoots, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2*****... everyday learn a new thing!
  • peteinakl, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Where was the funny bit?
  • lifeat24fps, on 05/15/2008, -1/+6What a bunch of *****.
  • xcyber347, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4what predators prey on horses?
    • mrinsanity, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7your mother preys on their penises

      ZING!
    • acdcfanbill, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3domesticated horses? none. In the wild, big cats and wolves.
  • c4m320n, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Really cool. The other night I guess I fell asleep on the couch with my eyes wide open. I freaked out everyone, including me.
  • drkmccrthy, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1I don't think that is so much of a solution as it may have been when horses were created. it's now a unique trait of a type of animals. this is kind of like seeing a video about why the hammer head shark's head is hammer shaped, on digg. who dugg this?
  • pigducksheep, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3I'm going to sleep standing up now so I'll be ready to run away from predators.
  • LawnMowerKitten, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5This was on the front page why?
    I could understand being the top of the section, but this is really very specific and useful to only a handful of people.
  • MacTyler, on 05/15/2008, -2/+1oh my god that was boring. The sad part is I think us diggers are immune, seeing as how if you are looking at this comment, the video did not phase you!
  • diggafrica, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1need this. saves you from buying a bed...
  • DeadlyAlpaca, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2My kitchen table does the exact same thing.
  • mrinsanity, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2GOOD ARTICLE!
  • eaglejm, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I grew up on a horse farm, this video was lame. Can't we do better in this day and age it wasn't even nighttime, at least some night vision on them or something, soundtrack was from what, Bambi?

  • ElJif, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Watch the video if you ever run out of Tylenol PM and need a sleep solution.
    • RxDaniel, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1So you think it would be easier for someone to fall asleep standing up than it is when they are in a bed?
  • Joe_rigby, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1The reason they euthenised the horse at the Kentucky Derby was because the broken ankle wouldn't allow the horse's circulatory system to function properly.

    Perhaps the original basis for the horse to develop the ability was fight or flight, but the action of a structure in the foot called the "frog"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_%28horse%29

    that "pumps blood up the horse's leg each time the frog makes contact with the ground" clearly illustrates the fact that horses stand up the majority of their life now has to do with pumping blood against the effect of gravity, not necessarily survival from a predator.
  • McMaster88, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Nice video, but how does this help me sleep?
    • RxDaniel, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2It was pretty boring, I almost went to sleep.
  • aaronhoffmeyer, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  • ChairDance, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Look at that horse.
  • halohunter, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Horses almost never lie down, not because they would be defenseless but because standing up functions as a key component of blood circulation. If a horse it unable to stand up and lies for an hour or more, it will die. Look it up peoples.
  • jaypooner, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1i thought this was common knowledge
  • displaced1, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I am going to try this right now, hopefully I will post again with an update in the morning.
    • displaced1, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I somehow managed to fall asleep, then woke up as I was falling to the ground. This sucks, I like my pillow top bed better.
      • 180andback, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3I farted once on the set of Blue Lagoon.
  • ucdesemuscles, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1I almost fell asleep watching this video. WTF!!? Why is clip on Digg?
  • JohnnyHotballs, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1dewar's and soda is my sleep solution
  • jimmy87lee, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2I just wasted 2 minutes of my life, when I need to write a five page paper...
    • chewitt, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3and another 15 seconds commenting on it
      • Slices, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I can write your paper for $10 per minute of the time you've already wasted.


        what? you don't have a million dollars, you say? damn.
  • skullmountain, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1you gotta be kidding me
  • ak99372, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Elephants can't lie either. They would suffocate themselves
  • vinnythekidd, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Umm... What the hell was that? I mean, I get it, but why?
  • parkskier426, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1worst. video. ever.
  • Shenaniganz08, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2its not for defense, their blood circulation requires a passive pump mechanism that is built into their front legs

    thats why a front leg fracture is fatal
  • viruz, on 05/15/2008, -1/+3-- Burried as spam, this guy diggs his own videos from metacafe in order to make money
    • Slices, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2I'll never really get what's with the whole prejudice against people who make money online. Can't you just keep focused on whether or not you like the vid and lay-off the disgruntled geeknicalities?
  • nonrate, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1Ummmm... is the sleep solution referring to the content of the video, or because this is so boring it puts you to sleep?
  • lacreme, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1hello digg spam
    damn metacafe farmers
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