Science Says Your Bed Is Dirtier Than a Chimpanzee's
It turns out, chimps sleep in much neater nests than we do.
By Laura Yan
May 19, 2018
Attention, humans: your beds are dirtier than chimpanzees’, according to a new paper from North Carolina State University. Chimpanzees sleep on treetop beds which they make each night. Humans sleep in what is virtually their own home-ecosystem: “human beds often contain a subset of the taxa—or types—of organisms found in the home," says Megan Thoemmes, lead author of the study. "For example, about 35 percent of bacteria in human beds stem from our own bodies, including fecal, oral and skin bacteria. We wanted to know how this compares with some of our closest evolutionary relatives, the chimpanzees.â€
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