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Today, there are six surviving species, and the fall into two groups. You've got your Bradypus three-toed sloths, they're the ones with the Beatles haircuts and the Mona Lisa smiles
Um then, there are the two-toed sloths
They look a little bit more like a cross between a Wookiee and a pig
Um.. They live in the jingles of Central and South America and they're extremely prolific
There was a survey that was done in the 1970s in a Panamanian tropical forest
that found that sloths were the most numerically abundant large animal
They took up one quarter of the mammalian biomass
Now, that's an awful lots of sloths and suggests they're doing something very right indeed
So what if, rather than deriding the sloth for being different, we tried to learn from it instead?
We humans are obsessed with speed
Busyness is a badge of honor, and convenience trumps quality in our quest for quick
Our addiction to the express life is choking us and the planet
We idolize animals like the cheetah, the Ferrari of the animal kingdom, capable of doing naught to 60 in three seconds flat
Well, so what?
So what? The sloths, on the other hand can reach a leisurely 17 feet a minute
with the wind behind it
But being fast is costly
The cheetah is speedy, but at the expense of strength
They can't risk getting in a fight, so they lose one in nine kills to tougher predators like hyenas
No wonder they're laughing
The sloth, on the other hand, has taken a more stealthy approach to dinner
They survive by capturing and consuming static leaves
But you see, leaves don't want to be eaten any more than antelope do, so they're loaded full of toxins and very hard to digest
So in order to consume them, the sloth has also had to become an athlete
a disgesting athlete
The sloth's secret weapon is a four-chambered stomach and plenty of time
They have the slowest digestion rate of any mammal. And it can take up to a month to process a single leaf
which gives their liver plenty of time to process those toxins
So, sloths aren't lazy
No, they're busy. Digesting
Yeah, really busy
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[3] Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal