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We thank Dr. Markus Schmidt for insightful discussion of, and comments on, previous versions of the manuscript. This work was supported by the Inselspital University Hospital Bern, the European Research Council (CoG-725850), the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Synapsis Foundation, and the University of Bern.

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Aime, M., Adamantidis, A.R. Sleep to Survive Predators. Neurosci. Bull. 38, 1114–1116 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-022-00875-0

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