How long is the life of the sloth?

Sloth is a general term for sloth suborder of mammals. It is mainly distributed in the tropical rain forests of Central and South America. The whole body is gray and brown because the hair is attached to algae, and the appearance is green. People often compare slow action to turtle crawling. In fact, sloths climb more slowly than turtles. Let's take a look at how long sloths live.

How long is the life of the sloth?

Sloth has been highly specialized into arboreal life, and lost the ability of ground activities, usually hanging upside down on the branches, hair fluffy and intended to grow, with algae and green, difficult to find in the forest. Most species reproduce in spring, and the pregnancy period varies with the species, ranging from 4 to 6 months or 9 months, with one litter per fetus, with a life span of 11 years for some species.

What kind of food does the sloth eat?

Sloths are strict tree dwellers and simple herbivores, mainly eating leaves, buds and fruits. The best food for sloths is low-calorie leaves, which takes several hours to digest. When they are full, they hang upside down from the branches and sleep late. It can be said that they take the tree as their home, rarely go to the ground, hold the branches in their arms, climb upside down, or hang them upside down, and move forward alternately on their limbs. They can hang upside down for a long time. Even sleep in this position.

How slow is the sloth moving?

The sloth is the only wild animal with plants on its body. although it has feet, it cannot walk and relies on its forelegs to drag the body forward, so it takes a month to move a distance of 2 kilometers. An animal who is still too lazy to do anything, even too lazy to eat, too lazy to play, can endure hunger for more than a month, moves lazily and slowly when he has to move, and even crawls slowly when he is chased and caught, and the speed of escape is no more than 0.2 meters per second.