Do animals sleep walk?

Question

Do animals sleep walk?

Answer 1

Not normally!  They will twitch, paddle their legs etc in their sleep, but I've never come across one actually sleepwalking.  Scientists have given cats drugs that suppressed the muscular paralysis that is a normal part of sleep.  Those cats ended up sleepwalking and acting out their dreams.

Although their brains are similar to human brains, it seems they are sufficiently different from our brains that they rarely have sleepwalking.  A sleepwalking animal is unlikely to survive long enough to pass the trait along so natural selection may have weeded out any genetic basis for sleepwalking.  The few that sleepwalk may have other brain abnormalities or have had physical damage to the brain.

Answer 2

not sure ...

Answer 3

Animals can sleep walk. They don't do it as often as people do, but they do.

Answer 4

I have no idea!  

Answer 5

Hahahaha...Thanks for my laugh of the day!!  XD

I never thought of that one?!  I suppose it could happen....  

Answer 6

In my 44 years of owning cats, I have never witnessed it.

Answer 7

NO