🦥Sloths: The Slowest Mammals on Earth!

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Sloths have the slowest metabolic rate of any non-hibernating land mammal. This sometimes makes people think that they are lazy, unmotivated, and not very good at what they do. In fact, being slow is an incredibly successful strategy for survival: sloths have survived on this planet for almost 64 million years!

Contrary to their reputation, sloths don’t sleep that much at all – research has shown that on average, wild sloths only sleep for 8-10 hours a day. In comparison, the similarly sized howler monkeys that sloths share their environment with sleep for 15 hours a day, while koalas will regularly snooze for 20 hours.

Видео 🦥Sloths: The Slowest Mammals on Earth! канала The Sloth Conservation Foundation