Sleep is a way to recover and replenish the energy that has been spent. Some animals in the wild usually do extreme sleep for hours, even up to days, or commonly called hibernation. Hibernation allows animals to store food and preserve it for months.

Some of the following animals do not hibernate, but they love to sleep for hours, some even sleep up to 22 hours! Here are the species of animals that love to sleep, summarized from various sources, on Monday (17/06/2024).

However, tree rats have become an interesting anomaly that attracts attention, especially because they rarely leave their nests at night, possibly because their eye structure does not support daytime vision.

They are active during the day, but sleep up to 15 hours every day during the active season. Squirrels also tidy up their nests for hibernation, when they are only awake for 12-20 hours in a week.

Although spending 16 hours a day sleeping, they can relax for up to 20 hours. Failure to hunt one night can result in a cycle of hunger and failure for tigers, who must utilize their energy as efficiently as possible.

They can stay in their burrows for 16 to 18 hours a day, where they search for food and rest. Researchers are not sure how much time they spend sleeping because giant armadillos are also active in searching for food in their burrows, especially insects and larvae that are easily found in their sleeping places.

They have an activity cycle adapted to darkness, utilizing their night vision to hunt and survive efficiently in the dense forest. Although known as "owl monkeys" because of their unique abilities, they remain agile and can navigate the environment without light very well.

Long rest is important because they need a long time to digest their prey, depending on its size, it can take days or even weeks.

The following 'Bahasa' text translated to 'English' while preserving any html tags: "Small brown bats need to eat half their body weight every night, while their mothers can eat more than their entire body weight in one night searching for food. Additionally, these bats also hibernate during the winter season."

Although the high branches provide protection from predators and endless supply of eucalyptus leaves, these leaves have little nutritional value, which leads to minimal competition among them. Nevertheless, during the four to five hours they are awake, koalas are very voracious. They are able to consume one kilogram of eucalyptus leaves per day and store it in their cheek pouches to eat during their nap.

Sloths are known for their adorable habit of hanging from tree branches most of the time. Their unique bodies allow them to perform many activities, including giving birth and mating while hanging, in addition to eating and sleeping. Due to abundant food and minimal predators, sloths rarely leave the forest canopy where they live.