Humans can hold their breath for as long as 3 to 5 minutes before they need to get air.
People that are not very healthy may only be able to hold their breath for 2 minutes or less.
Holding your breath too long can cause fainting, brain damage and blood pressure.
The animal that can hold it's breath the longest is the Cuvier's beaked whale.
A Cuvier's beaked whale was recorded by scientists to hold it's breath for 3 hours and 42 minutes.
The Cuvier's beaked whale, goose-beaked whale, or ziphius is the most widely distributed of all beaked whales in the family Ziphiidae.
Cuvier's beaked whales are the champion divers among whales and they hold the record for the deepest and longest dive for any mammal.
Cuvier's beaked whales have flipper pockets, a special adaption for diving which allows them to tuck their flippers in and make their bodies super-streamlined.
Scorpions are also another type of animal that can hold it's breath a long time.
Scorpions have been found to be able to hold their breath for as long as 6 days.
Scorpions use their poison to kill prey and to defend against predators.
Scorpions look like small lobsters and may be the first animals to move from water to land hundreds of millions of years ago.
They have been around since before the age of the dinosaurs.
Scorpions are invertebrates that possess eight legs, and a two-segmented body composed of the cephalothorax and the abdomen.
This is the classification of scorpions: Kingdom Animalia (Animals); Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods); Subphylum: Chelicerata; Class: Arachnida (Arachnids); and Order: Scorpiones (Scorpions)