10. Camel

Time without food: 40 days

The camel has a great capacity to survive for long periods without food or water. In fact they can live longer without water than without food.

9. Homo Sapien

Time without food: 116 days

There are numerous cases of humans going for extended periods without eating. In some cases it has even extended beyond weeks into months.

8. Dog

Time without food: 117 days

Unlike most of the other animals on our list the dog is a mammal and has to maintain a certain body temperature to remain alive. The dog’s metabolism acts to maintain the body temperature in times when the external environment is colder than the minimum temperature the dog needs. It therefore needs to eat to fuel its metabolism.

7. Emperor Penguin

Time without food: 120 days

The male emperor penguin gets the dubious honor of staying with the couple’s sole egg for the winter while the female goes and finds herself some food. During this period of incubation the male, who shelters the egg with his feet, doesn’t eat or drink.

6. Snakes

Time without food: 1 year

Like other reptiles, snakes cannot regulate their body temperature. When they get cold their body temperature lowers and, when it’s cold enough, they go into a state of dormancy. Unlike hibernation where the animal actually goes to sleep, snakes remain awake and they are said to ‘brumate’.

5. Frogs

Time without food: 16 months

Frogs have the ability to ‘breath’ through their skins and can survive under conditions that allow this as the only way of getting oxygen into their body. Carbon dioxide and water can also pass through their skin. This is the reason frogs have to keep their skins moist.

4. Spiders

Time without food: 18 months

Spiders have an exceptionally low metabolism in comparison to other creatures. One study has put it as much as half that of comparably sized creatures. This fits with the potentially sporadic nature of their food sources and, for many spiders, spending long periods of time totally inactive.

3. Crocodiles

Time without food: 3 years

Crocodiles are ancient reptiles that regularly go for long periods without food. As crocodiles rely solely on the external temperature to regulate their internal body temperature (aside from panting or moving between sunshine and shade), they don’t require food to maintain a metabolism that maintains body temperature. They become more active in hot months and less active in the cooler months.

2. Lungfish

Time without food: 4 years

Lungfish are not dissimilar to the Ohm at the top of this list. They can breathe air and have fins at the front of their bodies that were probably once legs. They are also predatory fish eating frogs, snails and even other small fish. Lungfish are sometimes known as salamanders and are found in Australia, Africa and South America.

1. Olm

Time without food: 10 years

Olms are amphibians that live in water in underground caves throughout Italy, Croatia and Slovenia. They have no pigment in their skin, eyes that don’t work properly (it’s blind), fantastic hearing and smell, little feet with toes and gills. It’s also known as a cave salamander.

But for me I no fit go nine hours without food ooh.