What are the Heart Rate Chronotypes?

You may already be familiar with the terms night owl and early bird or morning lark to describe different circadian rhythms. In a similar way, the animals below have been chosen to represent different types of heart cycles.

Due to the lack of information about multiday heart rate cycles, we do not know the average HR cycle length of any animals, but these animals have other chronobiological cycles that are a similar length to the duration they represent.

If your strongest heart cycle is...

worker honeybee icon

5-9 days (approx. one week) long,
your HR chronotype is the worker honeybee.

butterfly icon

10-18 days (approx. two weeks) long,
your HR chronotype is the butterfly.

clownfish icon

22-38 days (approx. one month) long,
your HR chronotype is the clownfish.

elephant icon

64-104 days (approx. three months) long,
your HR chronotype is the elephant.

turtle icon

more than 180 days (approx. six months) long,
your HR chronotype is the turtle.

chameleon icon

not fitting into any of the above,
your HR chronotype is the chameleon.