The slowest anim
al in the world is the sloth!
This fact isn’t too difficult to except, seeing as how these fellows spend an overwhelming majority of their time sleeping (20 hours per day) and feed exclusively on leaves sorely destitute of nutritional value. So sloths aren’t horribly lively; indeed, they move at the catatonic pace of around 12 meters an hour! It would take the finest specimen of sloth 83 hours to travel 1 kilometer. For this reason, you will most likely only ever encounter an upside-down, tree-suspended sloth, as their slow speed necessitates that they seek out the shelter of lofty trees markedly lacking in predators, which predominately prefer to meander about on the ground.
Your average sloth will only descend from his leafy home around every 10 days to defecate.
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