2006-06-14 14:25:49 · 10 answers · asked by Ed C 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
a snail can sleep for 3 years.
really
2006-06-14 14:28:57 · answer #1 · answered by .: The Girl Next Door:. 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Tardigrades (Waterbears) are tiny invertebrates in their class of classification that can remain in hibernation for extended periods of time, well beyond 24-36 months. Waterbears can drain the water from their bodies and go into cryptobiosis, which allows them to remain in an immobile stasis for an indefinite amount of time. In one case, when a plot of land was examined, a Tardigrade was found encased within the dirt, which was aged over 100 years old. Since there were no signs of recent burrowing and taridgrades have a short lifespan, this particular invertebrate was checked and aged for the exact same age as the dirt it was found in.
2006-06-15 00:27:45 · answer #2 · answered by icehoundxx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a frog in Australia, I forgot the name, that can stay under ground in hibernation for 2+ years waiting for rain. The Aborigines use it as an emergency water source by squeezing it and releasing the water stored in the frog's bladder (ughh). Also there is a fish in Africa, the African lungfish, that can stay underground asleep for 2 1/2 years waiting for rain to fill up the river it lives in. It stats alive by breathing through a simple lung and slowing it's metabolsm to almost nothing. But the top hibernator is the water bear, a micrscopic organism commonly found in mosses around the world. It can stay in suspended animation for up to and poosibly over 200 years! Whenever the going gets tough it... goes to sleep.
2006-06-14 22:55:53 · answer #3 · answered by Monty Python 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some types of reptiles and especially amphibians can; sometimes for much longer than 24-36 months.
2006-06-14 21:28:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bears.
Virus can stay dormant for a long, long time.
The virus, called human cytomegalovirus, enters the bone marrow and can hide there for a lifetime. Until now, however, scientists had not been able to study the virus in its latent stage because it infects only humans and does not readily infect or become dormant in laboratory strains of bone marrow cells.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/12/021205084431.htm
2006-06-14 21:51:45 · answer #5 · answered by ideaquest 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me anymore these days
2006-06-14 21:27:37 · answer #6 · answered by preciousmoments1962 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an animal that migrates.
2006-06-14 21:28:16 · answer #7 · answered by poetic_lala 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bears
2006-06-14 21:28:59 · answer #8 · answered by It's MEEEE!!!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is it a sloth? im guessing...
2006-06-14 21:29:28 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my boyfriend.......oh animal.........yeah by boyfriend
2006-06-14 21:27:02 · answer #10 · answered by samanthadk131 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋