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by JumpCrisscross 566 days ago
> I was looking at cats as an example of a species that sleeps in smaller chunks and splits activity all around night and day

Cats are crepuscular. The niche hypothesis predicts they'd sleep most of the day and night.

> not to a degree they can't move out from their niche

No animal I know of can't survive outside its time niche.