12 Most Gluttonous Animals in the World

The Tasmanian devil, which is the size of a small dog, is a carnivorous marsupial that lives on the island of Tasmania in Australia. A ruthless hunter at night, this creature hunts with the help of its extraordinary sense of hearing and smell. It eats carrion and live animals. Prey animals include kangaroos, sheep, tiny mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, frogs and insects. They digest about 15 percent of their total weight per day. According to published documents, the Tasmanian devil eats up to half its body weight in 30 minutes. It eats anything that smells of live flesh.

The Vampire Bat is one of the smallest bat species. These tiny bats, only the size of a human thumb, have very sharp teeth and can drink up to 5 teaspoons of blood when they pierce them. The vampire bat, which often clings to cows and drinks more blood than its own weight, is one of the most voracious animals in the world. Vampire bats often attack sleeping animals in the darkest part of the night.

Python, without a jawbone, swallows larger creatures in one bite. An average-sized python can swallow an ox or antelope heavier than a human being in one piece. Very voracious, pythons sometimes die while hunting. For example, there are pythons that die after trying to swallow a very large deer. Pythons are not venomous. It squeezes and kills the prey it catches until it stops breathing. If Python attacks a human or a creature, it will not leave it undead. After swallowing a large prey, the python stays full for weeks. Pythons hunt 4-5 times a year.

The Argentine Horned Frog looks small and cute, but it’s a total glutton. The horned frog is a good hunter and preys on birds, lizards and snakes. Horned frogs do not like small prey. They usually catch and eat prey of their own size. Horned frogs are among the indispensables of the list of gluttonous animals.

The hummingbird, one of the smallest birds in the world, flaps its wings 15-80 times per second. Its heart beats 1200 times a minute, it is known for its rapid wingbeat and hovering. Because it moves so fast, it feeds every 10 minutes. Although its main food source is flower nectar, it also eats insects while feeding its young.

Lions are among the known creatures as the king of the forests. When this is the case, the carnivore feature emerges. In addition to being carnivores, lions also show the ability to eat fruit falling from fruit trees without thinking. In addition, lions need to consume about five kilograms of meat daily. Lions mostly prey on antelopes and zebras. However, when the lion is hungry, they are known to attack almost anything they find. So much so that they even ate their own babies. That’s why no one wants to be around a hungry lion.

When you watch African elephants, you can see that they spend most of the day eating. An African elephant is the largest land mammal and must consume enough food to maintain its body weight.

An African elephant can consume about three hundred pounds of food per day. However, the elephant does not digest all the food it consumes. It can digest thirty to sixty percent of the food it eats.

Pigs are voracious animals that eat everything. It is both carnivorous and herbivorous. These animals eat plants, cinchona leaves, flowers, fruit, dead insects, garbage, rotten corpses. It has even been seen to eat piglets from those bred under protection. They sleep in their own feces.

Tiger Sharks are aggressive night hunters. Wandering around the bottom of the ocean, it swallows everything in its path in one go. The creature’s snout and teeth are very sharp, and it has excellent eyesight. Their prey often includes fish, squid, dolphins, sea turtles, seals, other sharks, herons and mollusks. Also a scavenger, the Tiger Shark is known as the “litter box of the sea”. In the examinations, car tires, license plates, shoes, balls and gas cans were found in the stomach of the animal.

Elephant seals are carnivores that reach 7 m in length and weigh up to 5 tons. Apart from the blue whale and the elephant, it has the title of the world’s largest carnivore because they do not eat plants. They live in different parts of the world and it is known that there are around 700,000 on average.

The bird-eating goliath is the largest spider in the world and lives up to 25 years. It got its name because it eats birds. There are also those who eat this spider that lives in the rainforests of South America. The natives of South America eat this spider, which they say tastes like shrimp.

The largest living creature, the Blue Whale, is a very greedy animal. It is larger than a basketball court. It can weigh up to 180 metric tons. The Blue Whale’s tongue weighs as much as an elephant and its heart weighs about 600 kg. The endangered Blue Whales feed mainly on small shrimp-like crustaceans called krill. Sometimes they also eat small fish.