How Long Animals Can Go Without Food

hey you hungry well food equals fuel for every living being on earth but there are creatures that can live much longer or much shorter than we humans can without any refueling so make yourself a sandwich and let's take a look at them giant anteater can go without food for just one to three days but has to eat about 30,000 insects per day despite its name it also loves termites slurping them up with its long tongue kangaroo rat this small creature can go hungry for up to four days but doesn't drink water at all it gets liquid from food giraffe can survive without food for up to seven days giraffes tongue is so long it can use it to clean its ears elephant can go without food for up to seven days elephants experience complex emotions just like we humans do for example they can feel happiness or sadness wolf can go hungry for up to 10 days Wolf's generally need no more than 7 pounds of food per day to survive but they like to get as full as possible so they can gobble up to 20 pounds in one sitting lion goes without food for up to 12 days lion males are lazy hunters and let their lionesses do all the job instead [Music] tiger up to 14 days without food is easy for this massive deal on but when it gets to feeding at last it can gorge itself eating as much as 75 pounds of food in a single sitting rabbit although this furry little creature needs as little as eight ounces of food per day it can easily last without food at all for longer than a tiger about 15 days condor can hunt for food without Ashley eating for 15 days condors are some of the largest birds out there and because of their huge weight they need the help of strong winds to stay in the air domestic cat surprisingly can deal with hunger for 20 days if there's enough water for it to drink just like humans cats need water more than food horse much like cats equines can go hungry for 20 days in a row but then they need lots of fresh grass to graze on about 15 to 20 pounds of it to be precise amoeba despite its microscopic size amoeba can survive without feeding for three weeks and its food our bacteria and other microscopic creatures axolotl these weird critters feel pretty happy without food even for 21 days and only need a couple of worms to stay this way for another long period of time leopard gecko its cold-blooded nature allows gecko to stay content without eating for a whole month then munch on several large crickets and go in a diet again [Music] Komodo dragon these lizards are huge but can go hungry for a month as well still they usually eat as much as their own weight in one sitting and then lie in the Sun digesting cockroach they say cockroaches will survive anything and no wonder they can live without food for up to 30 days and they don't even need head for that domestic dog it all depends on the size of the dog of course but a large one can survive for as long as 38 days without any food it will need water though spotted salamander although it's smaller than a leopard gecko a salamander goes even further when it comes to staying hungry 40 days is a joke for this lizard camel the ship of the desert as this proud animal is often dug can easily deal with 40 days long hunger it stores water and sustenance as fat in its humps and fills them again in one go [Music] earthworm these crawlers have no eyes or bones but they feel ok without food for 50 days in a row usually though they need half their weight per day to feel satiated human given enough water we can go without food for about 2 months now come on I can't even survive an hour without checking out the fridge for a snack Hedgehog this curly ball of needles can survive for over two months without sustenance and it doesn't only eat fruit insects and even small rodents are a large part of a hedgehogs diet shark their toothy they're scary but they only feed when necessary being able to swim around hungry for 70 days and they don't eat much 3 to 7 pounds per day is usually enough for a shark to be content just don't take the 7 pounds out of me please Gila monster if you haven't ever heard of it relax neither of eye until recently it's another lizard that can wave away food for almost 3 months and only needs 30% of its body mass eaten once per month [Music] bear while hibernating these animals can sustain themselves on their own fat for over 100 days but then they constantly hunt for food eating about 90 pounds of berries fish and meat per day emperor penguin females lay their eggs and leave father's to stay with them while traveling over 50 miles across the ice all this time about 4 months neither of them eat anything at all blue whale the largest animal that ever lived yes it's bigger than both t-rex and Megalodon shark can go hungry for up to five months yet it normally gobbles up around 8,000 pounds of krill badger small as it is a humble badger lies hibernating just like bears do this way it can survive without food for almost half a year and then eats just a dozen mice to feel full Python snakes are cold-blooded like lizards which helps them feed more rarely and pythons also have peculiar feeding habits they swallow one big animal and then digest it for a while Galapagos tortoise the biggest and oldest tortoises in the world have very slow metabolism allowing them to stay hungry for over a year they can live over a hundred years though so it's just a moment for them scorpion just a couple of large crickets once a week and a scorpion is pretty happy if no food is available well you can survive for a year no problem spider slowly luring prey into its web a spider can tolerate hunger for a year and then gorge when the meal is ready salmon for a fish so big it eats surprisingly little just two to three ounces per day and if necessary it can easily fast for over a year frog some species of these leaping amphibians can deal with a year-and-a-half fasting like it's nothing they don't like staying hungry though tick two years without any food is absolutely okay for this tiny creature it lies and wait until an animal comes close then jumps on it and finally eats as long and as much as it likes crocodile the largest and most ancient reptiles in the world coexisted with Dinosaurs and that's probably thanks to how long they can survive without food up to three years [Music] lungfish a fish that has lungs is weird enough but a fish that can stay hungry for over four years is even more so imagine seeing a fish going out to the shore to bask in the Sun Trago derma sounds like a new soap but no larvae of these insects can sleep without eating for over five years while adult critters only live for five to ten days at most all these strange creatures are sometimes called human fish because of their pink skin and tiny hands they only live deep in underwater caves and can stay without food for ten years at a time tardigrade cockroaches tardigrades can survive the most extreme conditions on the planet and live happily without food or water for thirty years Wow how's that for survival skills [Music]

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Sun May 17 2020