Sleeping?

[Jumpshot724]

Do toads "sleep"? Like, do they close their eyes and actually sleep like a dog or cat does or do they kinda sleep like a fish, which isn't really sleeping just a vast slow down in activity.

If they do sleep, do they close their eyes? Haha, I ask because sometimes at night one of my toads looks drunk as his eyes are half closed. As a matter of fact he's doing it right now in an amplexus with another toad (must not be too good or exciting )

 

[John]

As far as I'm aware they have periods where they sleep but don't ask me to compare it to mammalian sleep - I simply don't know enough about it. Amphibians just seem to "zone out" when they sleep, and they don't seem to shut their eyes completely.

 

[tarita2004]

my frog tends to 'hide' where i cant see him (*well so he thinks *) then has his eyes slightly closed and chills there...that's the closest i've ever seen