The world's slowest moving animal

The sloth is one of the slowest animals in the world, coupled with the peculiar three toes that gave it its name. The sloth's maximum speed is 3 centimeters per second, and the three-toed sloth, at 6.7 centimeters per second, can only travel 5.6 kilometers a day. Sloths are mammals that look a lot like monkeys from afar, often hanging upside down in trees. Compared with the monkey's resourcefulness that is very far from the sloth, the name of the word "sloth" to describe it is really very apt. Sometimes hanging in the tree for several hours are not too tired, is really very admire it.

Sloth habits

Why does it have feet but can't walk? Probably because it is too lazy! Hanging on the trees for a long time has ruined it. The walking speed is really slow, it takes an hour to walk 1 km. The sloth is now a completely arboreal animal.

The sloth is the only animal that grows plants on its body, the hair covered with a layer of algae. A lifetime without sunlight, like to eat some young leaves, fruit. When they are full, they sleep, and they often treat the trees as their home.

Sloth habitat

Sloths live in tropical rainforests in South America, and we all know that there are many trees in tropical rainforests. The sloth has no problem hanging in the trees for a long time, but not on the ground, which is a constant torture for the sloth. Although it has feet, but it simply can not walk, only crawl.

Sloths generally reproduce for three to four months, and their gestation period is usually one hundred and twenty to one hundred and eighty days. Female sloths also have the ability to regulate their body temperature during pregnancy. A litter gives birth to one, and the young are ready to eat relatively tender leaves at two months of age and begin to learn basic methods such as climbing trees.

The sloth's survival is less threatened by natural predators, but by our humans to destroy their homes a lot, to bring the sloth to the end of the disaster.