A giant tortoise can go a very long time without eating or drinking.
It can last many months without food or water by storing what it needs inside its body.
💡 Animal Food — Fun Facts
Fun “Did you know?” facts about Animal Food — tap through 10 at a time!
A tiny shrew must eat almost every couple of hours to stay full.
The shrew has a super-fast little body that burns energy quickly, so it eats many times a day and night.
Owls swallow their food whole and cough up the bits they can't use.
Later an owl brings up a little pellet of fur and bones its tummy couldn't digest.
An anteater can eat thousands of ants in a single day.
It uses a long, sticky tongue to slurp up ants and termites. It has no teeth at all.
Hummingbirds drink sweet nectar from flowers.
They flap super fast and sip sugary nectar for energy. They also snack on tiny bugs.
A koala eats leaves that would make most other animals sick.
Koalas munch eucalyptus leaves. Their tummies have a special way to handle the tough, oily leaves.
A giant panda spends most of the day munching bamboo.
Pandas eat bamboo for many hours every day because it gives them only a little energy at a time.