What's the laziest animal in the world? Do you still have an impression of the sloth in the crazy animal city? Is the slow voice very anxious? Although the sloth has feet, it can't walk. It depends on its forelegs to drag its body forward.
Sloth is a kind of lazy mammal. It is lazy to do anything, even to eat, play, and endure hunger for more than a month. When it has to be active, its movement is also extremely slow. Even when they are chased and captured, they crawl slowly as if nothing happened. Like this, in the face of danger, the speed of escape is still less than 0.2 M / s.
Sloth is the only wild animal with plants on it. Although it has feet, it can't walk. It relies on its forelegs to drag its body forward. So it will take a month to move 2 kilometers. However, it is a good swimmer in the water. The best food for sloth is low calorie leaves. It takes several hours to digest a little.
People often compare slow movement to tortoise climbing. In fact, sloth climbs slower than tortoise. Sloth lives in the dense tropical forest of South America. It never leaves and eats leaves, buds and fruits. When it's full, it hangs upside down on the branches and sleeps in. It can be said that it takes trees as its home. It is a little like a monkey in shape and moves slowly. It is often hung upside down on a branch for several hours without moving, so it is called a sloth.
Sloth is the only wild animal with plants on it. Although it has feet, it can't walk. It relies on its forelegs to drag its body forward. It is distributed in South America. The hair is fluffy, long and thick; the head is short and round, the ears are small and hidden in the hair; the tail is short; the forelimb has three fingers and the hind limb has three toes, all of which have sharp claws that can be flexed, and the forelimb is longer than the hind limb; the upper jaw has five pairs of teeth, and the lower jaw has four pairs, a total of 18; the stomach is divided into several compartments; the cervical spine has nine segments, the most of which are mammals; the whole body hair is grayish brown due to the algae attached to the hair, and the appearance is green.
Live in the tree all the year round, hook the branches with your claws and hang your body upside down, and move on the tree to prevent the attack of carnivores. The natural enemies are Python and Raptor. The sense of smell is sensitive, and vision and hearing are not very developed. Nocturnal, feeding on leaves and fruits. Most species reproduce in spring, and the gestation period varies with species, 4-6 months or 9 months. 1 per child. Of tropical forests in South America.