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by small_model 16 days ago
Watch male lions they sleep when they want, laze about all day until they need to eat. Or you can be a deer caught in the corporate wage slave, alarm clock prisoner headlights.
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Artificial light has a huge effect on drowsiness for me. This is quite noticable when I am out in the woods, camping in a tent. After sundown, I have about an hour left before I get so drowsy that I cannot keep my eyes open. Back home, indoors, I can stay awake almost indefinitely.
Male lions don't hunt, females do. In human hunter gatherer society, it's the males that hunt while females gather plants.

Also, as I mentioned in a sibling comment, humans hunt in a fundamentally different way to most predators, including lions: humans chase to exhaustion over hours while lions try to outrun their prey over minutes or less. (That's why humans have three gaits: walking, jogging, running, while most animals only have walking and running.)

Watch birds they fly when they want. Or you can be a slave worm bound to the earth. The choice is yours
If you watch birds you will see they don't use alarm clocks nor go to work, but still find food each day.
Birds don't need to cooperate in groups to find food.

In animals that do, you can bet that they have a way to wake together. If you're camping in the same tent as other humans you'll soon find that out. Alarm clocks are a workaround for not living communally with the rest of your tribe.

What about female lions?