Trivia: The Sleepiest Animal in the World



The sleepiest animal in the world is the koala, who sleeps 22 hours a day.

Next is the sloth (20 hours), armadillo and opossum (tied at 19 hours each), lemur (16 hours), then hamster and squirrel (tied at 14 hours each).

How about cats? Though some cats can sleep up to 20 hours a day, the average cat sleeps 13 hours a day. In comparison to koalas, cats are downright energetic!


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Posted on April 26, 2008 at 11:27 am by Alex
Category: Animal, World Records



13 Comments to "Trivia: The Sleepiest Animal in the World"

  • quinnn
    April 26th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    you forgot my husband, 14 hours a day.

  • Sorcerer Mickey
    April 26th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    BAH! My ferret sleeps 23 & 1/2 hours daily, awakening only when I feed him, clean his litter box and let him out. He runs around for about 15 minutes and then curls up under the covers on my bed.

  • Sheldon
    April 26th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    Yeah, one of my cats must be part koala.

  • Al
    April 26th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    Well, actually I usually sleep a lot morzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

  • fsmarch
    April 26th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    Funny, though, when rodents like the hamster and squirrel are awake, their metabolisms are so darned fast, that they have to rest, just to keep from burning out!

  • Alannah
    April 26th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    My son has a daushound that I’ve never actually seen awake. When he takes it for walks, he carried it’s sleeping form to it’s favorite pee spots, it pees, and then leaps into his arms to be carried back to it’s bed, asleep again almost instantly.

  • fsmarch
    April 26th, 2008 at 10:56 pm

    @ Alannah :

    As a dog owner and lover, have you had the dog checked out by a vet?

    That behavior does not sound healthy. That species is usually energetic and vibrant.

    I am not picking on you, I am just concerned about the animal.

  • L.C.
    April 27th, 2008 at 1:06 am

    well obviously the scientists who deemed this true has not met me….

  • nunyabiz
    April 27th, 2008 at 2:35 am

    wrong, the sleepiest animal in the world is the apathetic American who takes it up the hiney for poor healthcare, big pharm which fucks them at every turn, and marijuana which is still illegal to grow, despite it being here for people to actually USE. Sleep, pandas, sleep, while the corporations run your pathetic lives. Enjoy another funny while another Wal-Mart moves in and you continue paying sky high prices for your medicine while the oil companies laugh as you continue to bitch and buy their offerings anyway.

    the animals have it easy

  • Dr. Bardou
    April 27th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Oh, I didn’t know that sloth is number 2, and stays in top after koala.

  • Thomas
    April 27th, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    Lazy-ass fake-bears. Pull your weight! You’re the shame of the marsupial community.

  • su.wei
    April 28th, 2008 at 1:31 am

    i always wanted to be a cat.
    but in my next life, i hope i come back as a koala

  • Alli
    April 28th, 2008 at 8:43 am

    Koalas sleep so much because eucalyptus, their main food of choice, has basically the same effect as giving a human marijuana, they’re pretty much stoned as they cling onto that tree. That’s also why the main cause of death of koalas is falling out of the tree.


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