12 Animals That Can Stay Without Food For A Long Time

by **Mrkunlex** Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:34 am

1.
OLMS

These spooky amphibians live in underwater caves in Italy and the Balkans. They’re related to salamanders, but they live their entire lives under water. Resources in this environment are slim, and
these creepy-crawlies can go up to ten years or more without eating.
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2.
SHARKS

Great white sharks can go several weeks without eating. The cool thing about this is that the longer they go without a full meal, the more acute their hunting skills become.
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3.
BEARS
Turns out the idea that bears hibernate over the winter was a big fat lie. They do sleep more during the winter, and they do cut their metabolism in half. While they may not sleep through Christmas
and New Year’s, they can go about 100 days without eating or drinking.
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by **Mrkunlex** Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:39 am

4.
PENGUINS
It goes without saying that penguins live in some of the most brutal environments on earth. While
the females venture out into the subzero temperatures to hunt, the males sit atop the nest, keeping the babies warm. For the two to four months that they’re out, the men live off of their layer of fat. No yummy fish in sight.
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5.
CAMELS
Those humps on a camel’s back aren’t made of water, like you were probably told as a youngster.
That’s fat stored up to give them energy when trekking through the desert — it can last around 40
days.
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6.
FROGS
Since frogs rely on wet environments, their bodies are built to compensate when nature doesn’t comply. During times of draught, some species can hibernate for up to 16 months. Others living in colder areas enter a dormant state that conserves
much more energy. Of course, when they’re in hibernation, they’re not going to be sitting down for breakfast every morning.
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by **Mrkunlex** Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:44 am

7.
SNAKES
These cold-blooded reptiles can’t regulate their body temperature in chilly weather, so their metabolism slows down 70% and they can go up
to an entire year without consuming any food.
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8.
CROCODILES
These guys preserve energy by waiting, motionless, for their prey. They’ll usually go a few months without food, but in extreme cases, can go up to three years without it. Given that they’re one of the oldest reptiles on the planet, they must be doing something right…but I’d be craving pizza by DAY three, at the latest
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9.
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Since spiders sneakily wait for their food to come to them, sometimes they have to wait a while before their next meal. No worries, though — their bodies are made to last up to a few months without food, unless you’re a rabbit hutch spider, in which case you can go for about a year.
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by **Mrkunlex** Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:47 am

10.
GALAPAGOS TORTOISE
These guys can live to be over a century old. You’d think by that age, they’d want to indulge in as
many meals as possible, but these reptiles can go without food or water for up to a year in some cases.
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11.
MUDSKIPPERS
Hailing from Australia, Africa, and South America, mudskippers, aka lungfish, can hibernate for about
four years in extremely harsh conditions. What’s interesting about their dormant state, though, is that they’ll start digesting their own muscle tissue, which is what we humans would call “starvation.”
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12.
GILA MONSTERS
A heavy, typically slow-moving lizard, up to 60 cm (2.0 ft) long, the Gila monster is the only venomous lizard native to the United States and one of only two known species of venomous lizards in North America.
They are known to feed between 5 to 10 times a years
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