Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Animal Sleep Time By Hours


Below are the average sleeping hours animals (including human) need per day. And guess which animal sleep almost the same number of hours as men?

19 hours+

  • Brown Bat (19.9 hours)
  • Brown Bat

18 hours

  • Giant Armadillo (18.1 hours)
  • Giant Armadillo

  • Python (18 hours)

17 hours

  • Owl Monkey
  • Owl Monkey

16 hours

  • Infant Human (16 hours)
  • Tiger (15.8 hours)
  • Tiger

  • Tree shrew (15.8 hours)

15 hours

  • Squirrel (14.9 hours)
  • Squirrel

14 hours

  • Ferret (14.5 hours)
  • Three-toed Sloth (14.4 hours)
  • Golden Hamster (14.3 hours)
  • Golden Hamster

13 hours

  • Lion (13.5 hours)
  • Lion

  • Gerbil (13.1 hours)
  • Rat (12.6 hours)

12 hours

  • Cat (12.1 hours)
  • Cat

  • Cheetah (12.1 hours)
  • Mouse (12.1 hours)

11 hours

  • Rabbit (11.4 hours)
  • Jaguar (10.8 hours)
  • Duck (10.8 hours)
  • Dog (10.6 hours)
  • Dog

10 hours

  • Bottle-nosed dolphin (10.4 hours)
  • Bottle-nosed dolphin

  • Baboon (10.3 hours)
  • Chimpazee (9.7 hours)

9 hours

  • Guinea Pig (9.4 hours)
  • Guinea Pig

8 hours

  • Adult Human (8 hours)
  • Pig (7.8 hours)
  • Pig and Human have a lot in common
    Pig and Human have a lot in common

7 hours

  • Guppy Fish (7 hours)
  • Guppy Fish

6 hours

  • Gray Seal (6.2 hours)
  • Gray Seal

5 hours

  • Elderly Human (5.5 hours)
  • Goat (5.3 hours)
  • Goat

4 hours

  • Cow (3.9 hours)
  • Cow

  • Asiatic Elephant (3.9 hours)
  • Sheep (3.8 hours)

3 hours

  • African Elephant (3.3 hours)
  • Donkey (3.1 hours)
  • Horse (2.9 hours)
  • Horse

2 hours

  • Giraffe (1.9 hours)
  • Giraffe


1 comment:

Unknown said...

Really interesting post. Great Pictures, especially the one of the Dog and it looks like the Grey seal is just about ready for its 6.2 hours of sleep or its just woken up.