Which animal can sleep for 300 years?

No animal can sleep for 300 years.
The correct answer is that they rest throughout the day. They rest lightly throughout their active months, but when hibernation season comes around, they dive in deep waters to sleep, that is.
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Which animal sleeps the longest?

Koalas are the longest sleeping-mammals, about 20–22 hours a day.
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Which animal can sleep for 17 years?

Perodical cicadas spent nearly their entire lived underground, emerging after 17 years to reproduce and die.
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What animal spends 90% sleeping?

Koalas. Hats off to the (somewhat disputed) king of sleep: the Koala bear. They've been reported to sleep up to 22 hours a day in captivity, over 90% of their lives.
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Which animal Cannot sleep?

But the bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus show the same reaction in both situations. This indicates that bullfrogs do not sleep. Lithobates catesbeianus is an animal that cannot sleep.
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5 Animals That Sleep Too Much (and One That Might Not Need To)



Can ants sleep?

YES, THEY DO - but not in the sense we understand sleep. Research conducted by James and Cottell into sleep patterns of insects (1983) showed that ants have a cyclical pattern of resting periods which each nest as a group observes, lasting around eight minutes in any 12-hour period.
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What animals don't feel pain?

While mammals and birds possess the prerequisite neural architecture for phenomenal consciousness, it is concluded that fish lack these essential characteristics and hence do not feel pain.
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What animal is lazy?

Three-toed sloths are some of the slowest and seemingly laziest creatures in the world. Instead of evolving to eat more, they evolved to do less.
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Which animal sleeps for 6 month?

Brown Bat/Sloths – 20 hours

Due to lack of food they also spend 6 months of the year in hibernation. Sloths also spend 20 hours of their day asleep.
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How long do dogs sleep?

Adult Dogs: Most adult dogs seem to need between eight and 13.5 hours of sleep every day, with an average of just under 11 hours. For comparison, most adult humans need seven to eight hours of sleep.
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How many years can snake sleep?

Consequently, snakes (and some other cold-blooded animals) go to sleep for a few weeks up to 4 months. This is very similar to hibernation but is called brumation which is how cold-blooded animals survive the weather. Remember that only warm-blooded animals hibernate. Snakes brumate in their dens or hibernaculum.
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Which animal has no age limit?

To date, there's only one species that has been called 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. These small, transparent animals hang out in oceans around the world and can turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage of their life cycle.
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Can zebra sleep?

Zebras can snooze standing up

This means they can subconsciously lock their knees into position and doze without worrying about falling over. This adaptation has many benefits: it ensures the zebras are alert to predators and can escape quickly if threatened. However, to achieve deep sleep, zebras do need to lie down.
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How do fish sleep?

While fish do not sleep in the same way that land mammals sleep, most fish do rest. Research shows that fish may reduce their activity and metabolism while remaining alert to danger. Some fish float in place, some wedge themselves into a secure spot in the mud or coral, and some even locate a suitable nest.
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Which animal spends 70% of its time sleeping?

Koalas (Phascolartos cinereus) really are a real-life Snorlax! These marsupials can sleep for 18 to 22 hours a day. This is largely due to their diet.
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Which animal has three hearts?

Octopuses have blue blood, three hearts and a doughnut-shaped brain. But these aren't even the most unusual things about them!
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What animal is only pregnant for 12 days?

The shortest known gestation is that of the Virginian opossum, about 12 days, and the longest that of the Indian elephant, about 22 months.
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What animal stays pregnant for years?

Share: Elephants have the longest pregnancy period of any living mammal. If you – or someone you know – has experienced a pregnancy that seemed to go on forever, spare a thought for the elephant.
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Which animal can t jump?

In the case of the elephant, in fact, it's impossible. Unlike most mammals, the bones in elephant legs are all pointed downwards, which means they don't have the "spring" required to push off the ground.
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What is the weakest animal alive?

Too Weak to Support Its Own Body Weight: The Jellyfish

Crystal jellies Aequorea victoria, are a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa, that is found off the west coast of North America. Almost every living creature on the planet has at least the strength to support its own body and move around.
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Which animal Cannot sit?

Horses can't bend their rear legs and sit on the ground; it's anatomically impossible.
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What animal is very lonely?

Bears. All bears, from the polar bear to the brown bear, like to live alone. It is in their nature to be solitary animals, and most species of bears are like that. Bears prefer the company of a tree or, in the case of polar bears, a good chunk of ice, rather than the company of another bear.
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What animal has no fear?

According to the Independent, honey badgers have been described in the Guinness Book of Records as the "most fearless animal in the world" and can even fight off much larger predators like lions and hyenas.
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What animal hurts cry like humans?

For elephant calves and human infants, crying is probably more out of stress than sorrow, he told 'Discovery News'. He pointed out that scientific studies have proven that chicken, mice and rats display empathy - feeling another's pain - which is an even more complex phenomenon.
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Do animals cry in pain?

If you define crying as expressing emotion, such as grief or joy, then the answer is yes. Animals do create tears, but only to lubricate their eyes, says Bryan Amaral, senior curator of the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Animals do feel emotions, too, but in nature it's often to their advantage to mask them.
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