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)

18 hours

• Giant Armadillo (18.1 hours)



• Python (18 hours)

17 hours

• Owl Monkey

16 hours

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



• Tree shrew (15.8 hours)

15 hours

• Squirrel (14.9 hours)

14 hours

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

13 hours

• Lion (13.5 hours)



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

12 hours

• Cat (12.1 hours)



• 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)

10 hours

• Bottle-nosed dolphin (10.4 hours)



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

9 hours

• Guinea Pig (9.4 hours)

8 hours

• Adult Human (8 hours)
• Pig (7.8 hours)


Pig and Human have a lot in common

7 hours

• Guppy Fish (7 hours)

6 hours

• Gray Seal (6.2 hours)

5 hours

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

4 hours

• Cow (3.9 hours)



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

3 hours

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

2 hours

• Giraffe (1.9 hours)